The Motive and the Cue depicts John Gielgud's struggle to direct Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway. Its writer describes the task of putting his words into such celebrated mouths I have spent most of my life avoiding writing about real people. In fact, as a screenwriter, I've made half a career out of avoiding it. I wrote pieces that were almost about real people, but not quite. With my Channel 4 dramas National T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM on April 7, 2023