| AS Guru, BBC 2,
2000 |
As part of an English revision programme for students preparing
to sit their AS levels, Zoe discussed her approach to playing
Emilia in Othello, in a 1989
stage production for the RSC. The interview was
interspersed with clips from the production. |
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Transcript |
Zoë Wanamaker: The approach I
took to play Emilia in Trevor Nunn's production was one of an
abused woman. So I read a lot of books on women who had
been married to murderers and who had not wanted to believe that
their husbands were murderers. She [Emilia] was an army
wife, and I felt she'd fallen in love with Iago and perhaps for
two or three years they'd had a very, very, very wonderful
relationship. I think that she deludes herself - or hopes
- that the relationship will someday get better and someday
she'll come through it, but I think not. She has a small
speech where she says that men eat women up and then spit them
out when they're finished with them... |
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