reluctantly abandoned the
theatre, because he can no
longer remember his lines. “I
miss it so much that it makes me
cry,” he told John Preston in
The Daily Telegraph. Some
veteran actors turn to directing
– but Gambon says he lacks the
necessary authority. “I tried it
once, at the National. It was a
disaster. I can’t even remember
what the play was, but I do
remember sitting in the rehearsal
room directing the actors. When
I said we should have a
ten-minute break, they all went
into a corner and started talking
about me. That was bad
enough, but then there was this
actress who was supposed to be
sitting beside her dead husband’s
side. All she kept doing was
fiddling with her handbag. I told
her: ‘You can’t do that; you’ve
got to look at your husband.’
She just said, ‘I’d rather
fiddle with my bag, thank
you.’ And that was it. I
never did it again.”
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