Cary Elwes

They're all great, but there's a heightened sense of reality with the way that he delivers.

Obviously one of the great Shakespearean actors of all time.

But even when he's doing Rebecca or something like that, you feel like there's a...

There's a realism, but it's heightened.

For me, it's heightened.

But then Marlon Brando comes along and he pushes that all aside and goes, I'm gonna sweat, I'm gonna sniff, I'm gonna be, you can smell me on screen, right?

You can feel the dirt under my fingernails.

That's- Actually, with Brando, you could smell him.

No, I think that was the point, though, that he was being...

Marlon started to be on screen, whereas other people before him were creating.

I think that was the point for me with Olivier, is that he knew how to entertain people.

I read his autobiography.

He did The Entertainer.

He did The Entertainer, exactly.

But he actually, believe it or not, suffered from terrible stage fright.

And this is a guy who did more stage plays than probably any other actor of his generation.

And he used to go up to the curtain on the stage while everyone was taking their seats.

And to build up his courage, Bill, he would open the curtains and go, you're about to see a performance you've never seen before tonight.

And then that gave him the strength to go out there and

do that.