Sir Lenny Henry
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And I tried to learn, and I'd worked with Bardi Thomas on the text as part of the radio show, and Simon Elms came to the read-through, sorry, sorry.
But the read-through was the most frightening, but also the most thrilling thing you've ever done, because it's literally you're reading the play.
And it was so...
Brilliant.
And I met Conrad Nelson, who was my Iago.
And he was great.
He just basically said, anything you need, we're not going to be the Iago and Othello where they argue or the Iago thinks, this is the Iago show.
We're going to be a pair.
And because of him, I worked very hard.
We worked hard together.
We rehearsed every single day.
And it became what it was.
And I loved it.
And I've since...
Really enjoyed being an actor and I want to do more acting work.
That's a very good question.
I don't know that because I'm from Dudley.
Moving swiftly on, then.
Yeah.
Although, listen, I love Carrot.