good at that. i can evoke memory quite easily. rose: ian mckellen, patrick stewart and anjelica huston when we continue. sir ian mckellen and sir patrick stewart are here. the actors were a member of the royal shakespeare company together. they became friends in hollywood. patrick stewart playing professor xavier and ian mckellen plays mag nino the x-men film series. fans of lord of the rings know mckellen as gahn dofl. the brits are performing two plays in repertoire at the cort theater on broadway. the plays are samuel beckett s waiting for godot and harold pinter s no-man s-land. i m pleased to have them here at this table. welcome. thank you very much. rose: other than these are two great playwrights, two great actors, two friends and the playwrights were friends so all this friendship we ll talk about. how did this come together. whose bright idea was it to do all this? we d dondo doe in london and on tour about five years and on the last night in london
good at that. i can evoke memory quite easily. rose: ian mckellen, patrick stewart and anjelica huston when we continue. sir ian mckellen and sir patrick stewart are here. the actors were a member of the royal shakespeare company together. they became friends in hollywood. patrick stewart playing professor xavier and ian mckellen plays mag nino the x-men film series. fans of lord of the rings know mckellen as gahn dofl. the brits are performing two plays in repertoire at the cort theater on broadway. the plays are samuel beckett s waiting for godot and harold pinter s no-man s-land. i m pleased to have them here at this table. welcome. thank you very much. rose: other than these are two great playwrights, two great actors, two friends and the playwrights were friends so all this friendship we ll talk about. how did this come together. whose bright idea was it to do all this? we d dondo doe in london and on tour about five years and on the last night in london
when i met ken, i thought, i m just going to be honest about how i feel about the character of lady macbeth and either how i feel will be right for the particular production and if it s not, it s not, and then i m absolutely not the right person for this role. and it was just lucky that we both seem to have the same feeling. mackbeth for the hour, next. there s a saying around here: you stand behind what you say. around here, we don t make excuses, we make commitments. and when you can t live up to them, you own up and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it s needed most. but i know you ll still find it, when you know where to look. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. charlie: kenneth branagh is here. he s currently starring in and co-directing mackbeth at the park avenue armory here in new york c
when i met ken, i thought, i m just going to be honest about how i feel about the character of lady macbeth and either how i feel will be right for the particular production and if it s not, it s not, and then i m absolutely not the right person for this role. and it was just lucky that we both seem to have the same feeling. mackbeth for the hour, next. there s a saying around here: you stand behind what you say. around here, we don t make excuses, we make commitments. and when you can t live up to them, you own up and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it s needed most. but i know you ll still find it, when you know where to look. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. charlie: kenneth branagh is here. he s currently starring in and co-directing mackbeth at the park avenue armory here in new york c
i m just going to be honest about how i feel about the character of lady macbeth and either how i feel will be right for the particular production and if it s not, it s not, and then i m absolutely not the right person for this role. and it was just lucky that we both seem to have the same feeling. mackbeth for the hour, next. there s a saying around here: you stand behind what you say. around here, we don t make excuses, we make commitments. and when you can t live up to them, you own up and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it s needed most. but i know you ll still find it, when you know where to look. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. charlie: kenneth branagh is here. he s currently starring in and co-directing mackbeth at the park avenue armory here in new york city. the production comes fro