Tom Hiddleston as King Henry V in GreatPerformances: The Hollow Crown
TomHiddleston 在《名剧：空王冠》中饰演的亨利五世
Outside ofHiddleston’s obvious affection for Shakespeare, we also managed to ask abouthis first experience with The Royal Bard as well as seeing his eyes light upagain when he was told about his gay fans voting him onto TheBacklotHot 100 list.
除了Hiddleston对莎翁昭彰地情有独钟以外，我们还问他第一次演皇室的感受，并且当他听到他的同性恋粉们把他选入Backlot最性感100排名之中，他的眼睛再次熠熠生辉。
TBL: I personally didn’tunderstand Shakespeare until I acted it in a college theater class. Did youfeel anything similar to that between reading it and then acting it?
记者：直到我本人参演大学话剧社，才真正领悟莎翁，那么你在阅读和演绎的时候，是否也有类似的感受呢？
TH: My first Shakespearean production I ever saw, I was 13 years old. Itwas the RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company), A Midsummer Night’s Dream.I thought some bits were funny but, to be honest, a lot of it went over myhead, and it was really being taken to see Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado AboutNothing and sort of being dragged, kicking and screaming because it wasn’tan action film and then go, “Oh. Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves are inthis. Oh. This is hilarious and I understand everything and it’s great.”
Tom：我第一次观看莎翁剧，是我13岁的时候，在皇家莎士比亚公司看《仲夏夜之梦》。我当时认为有些情节很有趣，但是实事求是，大部分我根本就没懂。等到看肯尼斯·布拉纳演的《无事生非》的时候我是被迫去的，可以说是在哭喊打闹之中被拖去的，因为不是去看动作片，而去了之后，“噢，丹泽·华盛顿和基努·里弗斯联合主演呐，喔，真是很滑稽，而且我全懂，真是很棒。”
And thenbecoming interested in Kenneth Branagh and watching his Henry V andwatching his Hamlet and then also as I was reading it at school – I didEnglish Literature at school – and we were reading Othello and aroundthe same time I went to see this production directed by Sam Mendes before he wasa film director. With David Harewood playing Othello and Simon Russell Bealeplaying Iago and for whatever reason, I was 17 years old, I understood and wasriveted by every single word and I thought, ‘Who the hell is this genius?’ andthat’s when I was turned on to it.
那以后我就开始对肯尼斯·布拉纳感兴趣，并且跑去看他演的《亨利五世》和《哈姆雷特》，而且我在学校里也读到了这些——当时我在学校里有“英国文学”课——并且我们阅读《奥赛罗》，与此同时我去看山姆·曼德斯在导演电影之前导演的话剧《奥赛罗》，大卫·海尔伍德饰演奥赛罗，西蒙·拉塞尔·比尔饰演伊阿古，而原因莫名，我当时17岁，我看懂了并且字字句句都吸引我，而且我想“这个天才到底是谁？”从此我就陷进去了。
