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acting-refuge-leontes · stewart2009guardian

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acting-refuge-leontes
Assertion
Stewart described the stage as an escape from home, but said he feared portraying anger until the director Ronald Eyre cast him as Leontes in The Winter's Tale in 1981.
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I managed to find my own refuge in acting. … It was not until 1981, when the director Ronald Eyre asked me to play the psychotic Leontes in The Winter's Tale, that the breakthrough came.
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