Story Brief

The Dublin native portrays a closeted actor dying of AIDS while preparing to play Hamlet on stage: “This film is so much about everything in my life.” Andrew Scott had played Hamlet 150 times, each production clocking in at three hours and 45 minutes. He’d learned all 1,500 lines to perform at every show. He’d mastered the physical demands of the final-act swordfight and waded through the complex, volatile emotional journey that led into it.

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