When the #MeToo movement started, Glenda Jackson was incredulous.
鈥淚 could not believe that all these people hadn鈥檛 known for all those years exactly what was going on,鈥� the King Lear title performer told Cynthia McFadden of NBC Nightly News.
The two-time Oscar winner, who earned a Tony last year for her performance in Three Tall Women, has taken on a different challenge this Broadway season: playing a man.
Jackson only recently returned to the stage, moving into politics for two decades after Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 time as Prime Minister in the U.K. What she鈥檚 learned in that time: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 feel smarter. I think I鈥檓 in a better position to avoid making disastrous mistakes because I鈥檝e made disastrous mistakes.鈥�
Watch the entire video, in which Jackson also discusses her reputation in the industry and her advice for young women, above.
The Sam Gold-direct staging of the Shakespeare tragedy opened at the Cort Theatre April 4 and is June 9.
