Andrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, filmed live in West End, London. Hopes, dreams | dG1fNVFzZUlfdmRxN3M
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00:00 So what's been going on Ivan?
00:01 Nothing's been going on doctor, nothing's been going on at all.
00:05 Everything's still the same as it always was.
00:09 My mother is still a mad old crow.
00:12 She's in a state of complete denial now Michael.
00:15 She's got one eye on the grave
00:17 and the other eye reading all these magazines
00:20 about how at her age life is just beginning.
00:22 Alexander sits at his desk all day
00:25 and writes and writes and writes and writes and writes
00:27 scratching and scrapping, cutting and writing some more.
00:30 It's the paper I feel sorry for.
00:31 He's not made a single film in 17 years Michael.
00:38 He's dry as a bone
00:40 and this old fucker is now living on his first wife's money,
00:43 my sister's money, Anna.
00:45 May she rest in peace.
00:47 The maestro himself is now living on her potato farm
00:51 not because he wants to
00:52 but because he can't afford to live in the city
00:55 even though he is a, what do they call him?
00:59 Generational defining filmmaker.
01:03 Do you know he's been given three honorary doctorates.
01:07 Three, doctor, doctor, doctor.
01:10 And for what?
01:12 For what?
01:13 Nothing Michael, nothing at all.
01:15 He's never had an original idea in his life.
01:17 His only successful films were adaptations.
01:20 [laughter]
01:27 And even they were, what, adequate.
01:30 I wouldn't go generational defining, for fuck's sake.
01:33 And he's so pompous Michael
01:35 and he never fucking shuts up
01:37 and the luck that fucker has with women.
01:41 Not even Don Juan de Marco
01:46 has the luck that that old fucker has.
01:49 Anna, you met Anna.
01:50 Of course I did, Ivan.
01:51 Well how beautiful was Anna?
01:53 She was, Ivan, she was very beautiful.
01:56 Really though Michael, she was, she was.
01:57 She was lovely.
02:00 [piano keys]
02:10 [BLANK_AUDIO]