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Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play, and Branagh was quite right to give audiences the rare opportunity to experience all of it.

Wow, Sir Kenneth Branagh's interview achieved what my secondary education failed to do in several minutes.

What makes this version so great is that unlike most movies of Shakespeare, it is incredibly cinematic. Even if you don't understand most of what is said, you will follow the story clearly because Branagh does such a great job of directing your eye to the story being told.

Branagh created a masterpiece. Shakespeare is quite proud

the bestversion of hamlet, you can follow with book word for word

Branagh is handsome and very talented as actor/director/screenwriter/producer!

Jesus, that guy can talk! Having just watched the movie, and now listening to him speak with such force and eloquence, I half expect to find what he says to Charlie somewhere in the play! I remember when "Henry V" came along and everybody I was in college with, we were set afire talking about this new guy Branagh and his amazing interpretation of Shakespeare. He truly was the theatre nerd's Tarantino.

Must learn to speak as, BE as eloquent as, as elegant as Ken Branagh. What an artist, what a learned man.

Weird comment, but I just love hearing Kenneth Branagh speak. I mean, it’s like hearing my native tongue for the first time, every time. He has a beauty in his speech that has largely been lost, I think. And it’s not just his accent. It’s so alive and beautiful. Oh yeah and great interview 😬

I teach a freshmen English course at the university, and I've been on the ropes teaching Hamlet. This conversation, however, solidifies my decision to bring Shakespeare's great play in the classroom.

His Hamlet movie is my very favourite version. Kenneth is just brilliant - not only in Hamlet but almost in all of his movies.

Love his description 'the theatre was pulsing with life'. That doesn't happen often but I have experienced it.

This is the first time I've seen Kenneth Branagh speaking as himself and not a fictional character. My jaw dropped. I have never heard anyone describe Hamlet closer to the way I see him, with the brief exception of John Guilgud saying, in effect, that he doesn't see Hamlet as neurotic, but lively, full of humor, and at his best when confronting the great issues of life and death- that was from Guilgud's recording of his one- man performance of Shakespeare called Ages of Man. Maybe the followings will cut or "edited" but here is my opening paragraph on my University paper on Hamlet I wrote in 2007: From the time a bird feather was first dipped in ink to the ease of writing on computer software, a reader or playgoer's first desire upon finishing Hamlet has been to try to determine the heart of the Danish Prince's mystery. So many blanks have been left in this play that consistently poses more questions than it answers, that Hamlet is a perennial favorite acting role for any thespian worth his salt. Sarah Bernhardt did not let the fact of her being the wrong sex stop her from interpreting the melancholy prince. Coleridge may have put his arrow in the bull's eye when he said he was Hamlet. Whether Hamlet is the faceless part of our inner selves or some outer "other" that we will never really know, no end is in sight for written Hamlet commentary. Hamlet's character is hardly without spot or wrinkle, but I agree with Horatio that flights of angels did sing Hamlet to his rest. Hamlet's conscience is not a pothole in the road but the Grand Canyon, and it is what I seek to uncover with the help of his creator, Shakespeare. ( End of first paragraph) By Mrs. Colleen Cupido

He did an excellent job This Hamlet was such a work of art. You’re right Mr. Shakespeare would be vey pleased

I was vaguely interested in Shakespeare, and so I saw this film. That was it; I was hooked. I have been an avid Shakespeare fan ever since. Thank you Kenneth Branah!

I think this is an incredible source 4 Hamlet, life & living happy.

One of my idols. Truly brilliant.

Brilliant. We saw Mr. Branagh's Hamlet when it came out in the mid-90s. So engrossing that it seemed little more than two hours long, rather than four. The best monologues ever on film. Also, I love the way Mr. Branagh mowed down Charlie's incessant, trademark interruptions and just kept on going. Charlie has ruined many an interview either by interrupting his guest or by exercising - as here with Hamlet - his monumental, pedestrian ignorance of the subject of the interview.

12:58 Totally agree with him. He understand the charachter.

The love of of my life, alas not in my life any longer, and I went to see this on a slushy winter day. I was enchanted. The dearest time of my life. Thank you.

It's such a wonderful memory, seeing it in a theater on a Sunday afternoon a few weeks after it opened, on an otherwise dreary winter day. It was a beautiful film, like a painting. This is my favorite version. I have the utmost regard for Branagh's work. I loved his Henry V too, having seen it several times.

Thanks for sharing. Great interview. What passion!

Wow! Amazing interview! Will have to see the movie again.

Undoubtedly, Kenneth Branagh is the best actor in the world. I do love his specific way to talk about what is Shakespeare and how to show that. He is the authorized Explainer about Shakespeare by acting on stage rather than on screen.

Fucking love this man! Such a treasure he is!

Wow, what a Christmas present to open!

So happy that you said it was totally "unique." Thank you for your talent and ensemble brilliance.

The play and the film are superb in my opinion! I am also looking forward to seeing Branagh's film adaptation of, "Murder on the Orient Express".

i love his Shakespeare's movies and way to go ken

a fantastic feat! Truly something that will live on. I still remember the first time I saw Heston tell the story of the fall of Troy.

@1:32 exactly how I felt after seeing Branagh's Hamlet when I was 16.

Great actor Great director Sneak w Emma

Brilliant

I really hope Branagh returns to Shakespeare. New adaptations like the Hollow Crown have left me cold and squander the excellent actors that participate in them. Branagh's films (mostly Henry V, Hamlet, and Much Ado) have such a bombastic energy of love behind them. Kenny's sixty this year, surely he won't miss the opportunity to give Old Lear some justice on screen soon, right?

His annunciation alone is cause for rejoicing.

Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" is magnificent, marvellous and magical

There's nothing I enjoy more than teaching Hamlet. It's my all-time favorite work of literature as I can think of no other work more profound and deeply human. There is no character as noble as Hamlet, and I believe the reason for that is it was Shakespeare's attempt to write an idealized, adult version of his deceased son (whose name was Hamnet).

Branagh is a very good salesman.

When I was in my last year of school we did hamlet. Obv reading it is pretty boring. I rented the film & it was Mr Branagh’s version. Loved it. Never forgot him. ‘Ohhh horrible’😂😂😂

Good Conversation

Kenneth would make a great rapper

I acknowledge Geilgud is a force of nature and doubt not the validity of others' claims to him being the greatest Hamlet, but for my money Brannagh is my favourite. Not only theatre and film; there is an audio play version in which he is exquisite... His interrogation of Ros and Gild, the scene in which he eviscerates his mother, his handling of the mousetrap scene, all the nuances that make the character such a never ending joy to experience.

Who's show is this that he's on? [Edit: Found it, Charlie Rose]

The best Hamlet

Interesting to hear KB quote Coleridge (it's often, as here, misattributed to Hazlitt -- remember though that Branagh's performing on television even here) watching Kean's removal of all traces of English high-fallutin' tradition to Brando-style incomprehensibility like seeing Shakespeare "illuminated by flashes of lightning" : Woodrow Wilson said watching _Birth of a Nation_ was like history written in lightning, I wonder if Wilson was consciously quoting Coleridge

I need a Kenneth Branaugh and Thanos conversation

hamlet is a realy tough character to perfom ,have you seen any of my performances in movies and television

He said “when an actor playing Hamlet forgot their lines they would call it Hamnesia!”

Smart guy

Kenneth Branagh: the Bono of Theatre

Does anyone know about the book that was passed down by the actors playing Hamlet? Did David Tenant receive it by now? Or Cumberbatch? Curious as to who Branagh handed it down to...

Pretty nice when you don't have to pay a writer, the director and star are the same person, and the scenery, while elaborate visually, are pretty simple.

Nowadays audience do not like their valuable time for loose movie but fit jolly 30minutes movie without commercial within.

So surprised that during the course of the interview, in regard to listing the actors who have done well at portraying Hamlet, that the great Ralph Richardson was NOT mentioned. This, of course, will be be quite distressing to current Shakesphere expert, Harold Bloom.

You should read "Philosophy in Hamlet" to understand Shakespeare's Hamlet.

so they couldn't play scenes from his film? Thanks, lawyers.

Where does the text say hamlet is about 30? Idk why I just assumed he was like early 20s.

Who disliked this? Like seriously wtf

What’s in the red book? How many pages? Is it the play hamlet w marginalia by actors?

Did Harold bloom and Kenneth Brannagh ever meet?

To this day I'm trying to figure out why the late Richard Harris said Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh and Ian Mckellen are technically brilliant actors but they are passionless. 🤷‍♂️ 🤔🤔 That's not what I see when I watch them.

He needs to be on hot wings!

Forgive me for being biased but I got to know him first from his portrayal of Poirot which I must say was horrible. I liked the audio version of the movie and did not realize it was him much later on but it was the only complete play that I could find.

Is'nt that Henry V?

Damn, they missed out on the perfect Obi Wan for the Star Wars prequel 3 years later

He's my bestie

A great interview, of a great performance. I must admit my favorite Hamlet was Ethan Hawke.

any1 else miss Charlie Rose?

Who did he pass the Red Book to?!‽

Branagh at this age would have played a brilliant van Gogh.

For an egghead, Branagh is very charming.

Man crush!!!

Obi Wan?

Why did you kill Osric? It made absolutely no sense. "Henry V" is perfect.

what is it about him that i just don't like?

I really like Kenneth Branagh as a person but not that much as an actor

Ladies and Gentleman, the director of ARTEMIS FOWL

Branagh a Stratfordian, what a shame...Oxford wrote the plays

Grief first came from jesus on the cross. It became universal. Shakespeare relied heavily on’t. By that i mean jesus was saying ‘yes, grief is hard, life is hard, look at my disciples and mother crying for me. But have hope in that death was doomed from the start’

I had a difficult time with this version. Why does Branagh speak sooooo fast all the time in the film? He speeds through eloquent, delightful language, ruining the effect. Was he trying to wrap up the filming and run to catch a bus??? Just ruins it by fast-forwarding the dialogue and soliloquies. Even Maximilian Schell’s version in 1960 was better in terms of delivering the immortal lines.

You should read "Philosophy in Hamlet" to understand Shakespeare's Hamlet.