Jonathan Pryce had never seen Hamlet on stage " and thought Olivier's film version was mannered. But the violent death of his father prompted him to take on the Dane, and radically rethink the ghost as an Exorcist-style possessionIt took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted " I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by t…
