Andrew Scott

I know you love to wash the pens.

Every time I see him, he's scrubbing away.

But yeah, it's just that sort of stuff.

And the audience go... No, it's amazing how when you see someone come up with something like that in a moment and you realize it's all...

The tools change, but the task doesn't.

It's a great thing to say.

But you know what?

You've got, now we have AI and CGI and supercomputers and you can create all these effects and you can put it in the round.

You can do all these things, but basically you're getting the same effect as Mark Rylance putting a pen cap on the floor or a lighter.

And standing there in that moment,

You know, you can delight the human brain with the old ways as well as with the new.

It's the same thing.

It's exactly true because the audience are going, this is what I find so moving.

I never don't find it moving, which I think is why I love the theater.

It's that adults are going into a theater willfully and people are turning off the lights and somebody is telling them a sort of lie that they know is a lie, a story.

And they're saying, tell me, tell me a story.

So the liveness, the mistakes, and the humanity of it is the thing that really, really delights the audience.

And of course, visual effects, I mean, all that stuff is amazing too, but it separates the audience a little bit from the performer.

Whereas if someone said, I could do that with a pen if I just had access to my imagination.

So actually it bonds the performer and the audience member.