Einstein played the violin, was both scientist and artist. They always went to him for advice, but wouldn’t give him security clearance because they thought he was possibly a communist, and because he was Jewish. He kind of got branded wrongfully as a father of the bomb he was never really a major part of the Manhattan Project. He had to confront all the horrific outcomes of where his beloved science placed him, up against his innate pacifism. He had a very bohemian youth, he rejected authority and rebelled against German militarism-but then he settled into a very comfortable bourgeois life. And it’s important not to ignore the contradictions. In playing a role like this, you aim for a similarity and also to bring him to life as one’s own Einstein. I had a friend who studied at Princeton and folklore about him there is, he’d sometimes come in wearing a collar, tie, and jacket but he’d have his pajama pants on because he had forgotten or urgently had to get to a meeting. He liked wearing his wife’s shoes-if he couldn’t find his sandals, he’d just put on her open-toed slingbacks.
We found some delicious eccentricities about him because he was so down to earth. You could spend weeks online studying Einstein there are millions of references.
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In the series I’ve got massive slabs of dialogue so I had to understand the scientific principles involved and then fake it to credibility. So I have to try and make you believe that I have his brain.
You have to look as though you can do it, without too much editing. I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities-for example, playing a number of musical instruments, or sword fighting, or cutting a suit. First, I just try to relish the opportunity. It’s scary! But of course the most interesting roles often are. How does an actor prepare to play a scientist whose theories and understandings were so far ahead of their time? Rush spoke by phone from his native Australia his interview has been edited for length and clarity. For a sexagenarian character actor, they don’t come along every day.” The 10-part series premieres Tuesday, April 25, on National Geographic. But Geoffrey Rush, 65, says that portraying Albert Einstein in the National Geographic television series Genius is “what actors call a great part.
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He has played a wide range of uncommon men: Captain Barbossa in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, speech coach to George VI in The King’s Speech, and a brilliant, unstable pianist in the 1996 movie Shine (for which he won an Oscar).
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