Ciaran Hinds, the ultra talented Irish actor speaks of how he approached his role as "Julius Caesar" in the excellent HBO series ROME
AVC: How do you approach a character like Caesar, who had such a mythic presence, and yet was, in the end, just a man?
"Nietzschean. The superman. Fucking ridiculous. I'm pre-Christian, and all the rules and all the morals, they're not in play. The only thing that I can really relate to is the subterfuge of politics, which will be with us always. That I understood, the Machiavellian nature of "You say one thing, but you buy them off with another." A great theory is "Listen, don't kill people. Make them your friends. It's easier." Then you take their friends along with them. But if they really give you shit, then you fuck everybody up. That's the idea. If you start to run, you're in power, make sure you cover everybody."
Ciaran Hinds interview at AVCLUB.COM , 1/42010
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