Luvvie in a cold climate Kenneth Branagh is no stranger to ambition: he dared to take on Olivier at the age of 26, and wrote his autobiography at just 28. But in recreating Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic Antarctic journey of 1914, was he facing up - at 41 - to a challenge too far?

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 31, 2001| Author: Interview by Brian Viner | Copyright information

This parting was well made..." The actor Kenneth Branagh, who has arguably done more than any man alive to popularise the works of William Shakespeare, and whose fondness for wordplay shines through The Play What I Wrote, the homage to Morecambe and Wise what he in fact directed, will perhaps forgive me for applying a line from Julius Caesar (Act V scene 1) to his spellbinding portrayals of two very different men with two very different haircuts.

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