Video: David Tennant and Cush Jumbo Talk MACBETH Ahead of Cinema Screening

Kush, do you have a favourite Shakespearean film adaptation

Oof. I think it's going to be Basilemon's Grammy and Julia. Oh, that's a very good one

Yeah, so that was very young, very influential. Did they make a film of your Hamlet

They recorded it at the Young Book. That's my favourite. Correct answer, David

David, what's the first Shakespeare play that you watched on stage? The first Shakespeare to play that I watched on stage

was as you like it. The theatre around Glasgow, they came to my school

Oh. And it was in the assembly hall. Very important when they came into schools

Mine was, um... I think it was much to do about nothing

Yeah? Yes. And that was a school trip. There you go. That was a school trip

Where to? The national. Very good. I think it was, yeah. Do you remember who was in it

I don't remember who was in it. I was only eight or nine. Right. I don't think I even really recognised it was

shapes bit but I did think, oh, they're all talking a bit weird. Right. But I loved it

Good? Yeah. Good. Solo trips to the cinema. Yes or no? Yes. I have a six-year-old. I want some time in the dark by myself

But will you just fall asleep? No, I love it. I get completely immersed

Okay. You always wonder if people think, is it weird that I'm at the cinema by myself? Yeah. What about you

I used to go a lot when I was young, free and single. I used to go to the cinema a lot on

What? Do it? To meet people. Do in the afternoon? No. No. No. Not out of desperation

Out of choice. I'd go in the afternoons and sort of see all sorts

Just around the corner, there's a cinema, just up the corner from where we sitting right now That I mean a lot to you if you watching this in Cleveland And that where I used to go Panton Street Odea Oh lovely That a cozy one But a couple of years ago my wife had been

I'd taken all the kids to see the last Spider-Man film. Yeah. And I hadn't been able to go

And she said, you're going to love it so much. I'm going to let you have a date by yourself

And she sent me to the cinema on my own in the afternoon. That's how good my wife is

That's a nice wife. Isn't it? She just didn't want to see you for a couple of hours. She has walked rid of me

A great film, though. Very good. Do you have David a favourite Shakespeare character

Well, right now it's probably Macbeth. I'm quite fickle. He's the best

Yeah. I think, I mean, yeah, I do tend to like the one I'm most closely associated with at the time

Although Hamlet's hard to beat. It is hard to beat and it's hard not to like him because you have so much empathy for him

And you sort of explore every corner of his brain, yeah. I like Macbeth the most now. I've played him

Lay Macbeth or Beth. Right, yeah. I think you're the most likable I've seen

Thanks, Kish. Yeah, haven't liked the others very much. All Macbeth's. Terrible

You're next. Am I? Popcorn or chocolate at the cinema. Popcorn. Is it

Hear me out. Okay. I feel it is crunchy and can annoy people

However, I don't like the idea that you don't know where the chocolate's melting on your fingers in the sense

cinema because it's dark. I know where I'm out with popcorn. I pick it up. I eat it. It's gone

Out of my hands. Gone. Chocolate's an issue. You don't know where it's going to end up

but it quiet Can I suggest you take the popcorn you wrap it in chocolate Best of both worlds Guess what David There something called chocolate covered popcorn They actually sell it It a great idea At the cinema It a great idea Yeah yeah that what I ever do Your turn

Is there a Shakespeare character you identify with, David? I don't think so particularly

Is the one you identify with it? That's a hard question to answer. I think when I was younger, I identified quite a lot with Rosalind

Oh, okay. Because I did understand, particularly in my teens, this feeling of being two different people at the same time, wanting to be two different versions of herself, particularly like a real girly girl and then a bit more of a boy

Yeah. And I quite, I look like I got that. I understood that. Shakespeare was your therapy

Shakespeare was my therapy. But, yeah, the murder is and psychopaths and people like that

Not generally. No. I mean, I often think I'd be a very obvious

Andrew Igou cheek, but that's not a very sexy thing to admit, is it? I agree

People who clap at the end of a film, dot, dot, dot. Have you ever done it

It's slightly accusatory, tone to this question, if I'm absolutely honest. I still judged

I feel very judged. I remember going to be taken to see the original Lion King

with all my brothers and sisters and my mum and dad, and we all clapped at the end

Did you? I think that was our first group trip to the cinema and I had never seen anything so big and wonderful

and I think everyone clapped because they were just thrilled with it. Yeah. I do feel that people should clap when they come to see us in this

Yeah because it sort of a hybrid of cinema and theatre Yes And even though we won be there we will be feeling Feel free to clap Yes We down with that Across the sea How about when a plane lands and sometimes people clap then don they

Which I always think is a little bit throwing shade on the pilot. A lot about a thank goodness

It's a bit like, did the basics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Took off and landed

Not quite the same. Yeah, a bit like being clapped for going to the toilet or something, wouldn't it

I would like that. I would appreciate that. I would encourage anyone who encounters me in such a mode

Won't happen. That's not going to happen. How? David. Yes. Oh. Have you done that one

Are we done that one? Have you done that one? I've gone through them all. Oh, David, any tips for someone studying Shakespeare for the first time

Watch it. Rather, I mean, obviously there's a lot to be got from reading the text

but I think you should see a good production of it, and you have to see a good production of it

The bad production of Shakespeare can put you off. Yes. Or at the very least, get up with your friends and do some of it

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rather than silently reading it in your head. Yeah, or doing that thing

we're in an English class, everyone stands up and reads the next speech along

in a sort of terrible, well, in my case, a sort of terrible Paisley drone. Yes

Without a great deal of understanding. I think you've got to sort of get inside it. to make it fly

Yeah, start battling each other, throwing things across a classroom. I think that's the way to do it

Yes, but see a good production. Luckily, there's one coming to cinema, it's from February 5th

Gosh, yes. See that