How off putting to see a very young Claudius and a balding, older looking Hamlet. Young Hopkins is in fact younger than the actor who played his son (Nicol Williamson). I glad Sir Anthony waited another 40 years to play King Lear.
Was anyone else bothered by this miscasting?
"A fool and his money soon party!"
Both Claudius and Gertrude are very young looking compared to Hamlet (age 30). Perhaps it was the beard Williamson sported in this production that makes him look older than Hopkins.
-- If Ewan McGregor were a lollipop I'd be a diabetic strumpet --
I have an uncle (Hopkins played Willamson's uncle, not father) who's a year younger than me, so it didn't really bug me at all--it happens. How about the actress playing Hamlet's mother; she's only a year older than Williamson!
Yeah, they're dead; they're--all messed up!
I'm watching it on Antenna TV, for the first time.
Marriage is between one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.
I was slightly disconcerted by the similarity between Hopkins and King Rollo.