| Joseph Quotes! |
| From Glamour Magazine!- April 2001, Joseph is interviewed by Garth Pearce |
| This shows that Joseph and Jacob are still close even though they live apart: "If I envy anyone's family life, it's my brother Jacob's. His daughter is absoutely beautiful. I can't wait to have children" When asked about Killing me Softly and whether he and Heather Graham will be naked in the hottest sex scene of the year his response is "Definitely." "It's going to be full-on." and they will be at it for "At least a couple of days" "I know some actors talk about their provate lives brilliantly, particulary in America" "Maybe I want to talk, but others involved may not want to be exposed. It doesn't feel right" Joe won't be having any future wedding pictures in Hello! magazine: "I really admire people like Kate Winslet for refusing to have either her wedding or the birth of her baby, Mia, emblazoned across their pages. They're buying you at a personal price. If you refuse to be bought and sold, I think that can only empower you." |
| Copyright h.nelson 2001 |
| Joseph's views on Edward II from Yorkshire Post Magazine March 10-17 2001-interviewed by Lynda Murdin |
| "It's here in a wonderful theatre with a very special director. It's a play I've long wanted to do but on average it's done professonally only about every 10 or 12 years. Because it's done so rarely, I didn't want to miss the opportunity." "You hear so clearly the voice of Marlowe in it, especially in Edward. I love the muscularity of the text. It has such a strong modern resonance. I think anything which is classsical only survives and only is classical because it has that modern dynamic." Joseph on his character: "He is not attractive. He is petulant, he is arrogant. He's right in yer-face, he's unrelenting and passionate about his feelings for another man. He's denied that by the barons, by the realm, and in that denial they are denying his power as a king and so undermine his authority as God's anointed. And yet he does take it too far. He's a man who I feel is being liberated in recognising his sexual orientation. He's being released and part of that new-found freedom is ultimately a threat to those in the royal circle, a threat to society- as some people today find it threatening to recognise a homosexual marriage. In that respect, the play has great modeern resonance and opens debate." "It's not a gay play. The themes are greater and more complex then that. I have no qualms about that. As an actor, I take on the fascination of other characters. That for me isn't an issue. |
| Some people think that Marlowe was actually Shakespeare and that he wasn't actually murdered in a pub brawl in Deptford but secretly lived and assumed the name of Shakespeare. Joseph thinks this is "A can of worms," "It's partly fascinating, partly maddening. For every academic who can give you a persuasive argument about the person behind the pen, there's another one to cancel hi theory out and present a fascinating one about somebody else. The point is, we have his plays and, regardless of who wrote them, they are something we should treasure. We have the texts, that's what matters. Personally, I would say they couldn't be more diametrically opposed as writers. I certainly believe they knew each other and there was a rivalry between the two.....Shakespeare's genius is that he touches every base and it's pointless to try and close him down and his beliefs because they transcend that petty argument." "I haven't turned my back on Hollywood. I've just done a film which is for MGM. It's called Killing Me Softly and I play a young mountain climber. Heather Graham is the other lead. It's the first English-speaking film by a chinese director called Chen Kaige" "It sounds flippant and it's not meant to- but I'm happy to pay the rent. I think it's foolhardy to have a plan. There's a Russian joke- 'How do you make God laugh? Tell him your plans.' So, taking that on board, I live in the present." |
| The Guide, Saturday March 10- Friday March 16- Enemy At The Gates |
| "It was minus 15 degrees most days, it gave you the tiniest idea of what they must have gone through at Stalingrad - the cold, the lice, and the sheer misery and abhorrent nature of war. The filth and cold seemed to enter our bodies, so that you could shower all day and still not feel clean." |
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