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This episode of Living the Life brings together
the formidable principal ballet dancer and
Director of The Royal Ballet, Dame Monica Mason,
with Sir Derek Jacobi. The famed stage, television and film actor.
>> He called me across the rehearsal studio and said,
"Just kneel down," and I knelt by the side of his chair, and he whispered
"You know, I've had permission to go ahead to make a new ballet.
It’s to Stravinsky’s 'The Rite of Spring', and I want you to do the lead."
>> If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you -need- to be an actor, do.