It's pretty humbling to realize ...

It's definitely impressive that Branagh was able to be nominated for best director at age 28. John Singleton was nominated at 24 or 26, which is close the age I'm approaching. Though comparing yourself to these people isn't quite healthy, I don't think. You could say the same thng about a lot of people, to be fair. All the child actors who became millionaires while their peers were still in school, for example.

... but boy did he burn out by his 40's, both as actor and director. He's become bland and uninteresting in both capacities.





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"Don't just DO something, STAND there!"
Pastor Charlie Bing

It'd be even more humbling to realise how precocious (to others) he would have been at the age of about 12. Simply, people are on extremely different timeframes, never mind wavelengths. To him, he was having fun on his way to what early inclinations had lead him of becoming the new Olivier. Anyone at all can become - or already is -
a genius. It takes nothing but fearless generosity. Genius seems like the most individualistic, selfish, thing to most yet it is actually always, without exception, socialist in its pleasing - or at least boldly sincere - outcome for its sometimes terribly passive consumers.