Jim Broadbent on his 'Illuminatus!' experience

Jim Broadbent in 2012. (Creative Commons photo, details here.)

 In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Academy Award-winning actor Jim Broadbent talks about his experience in performing in Ken Campbell's stage adaptation of the Illuminatus! trilogy. There's a lot of good descriptions of what Campbell was like and how he worked with actors:

"He never wanted understatement from actors. (Unless, he might say: “I want you to understate this even more. Even smaller than that!”) No. He just wanted you to make sure it was fascinating. At one point I said to him, Ken, I’m a bit worried I’m upstaging the actor whose scene this is. 'Don’t worry about that. If you’re more interesting than he is, that’s his problem'.”