After 65 years as an actor, Brian Cox has no shortage of thespian wisdom to impart. But the Scotsman likes synthesizing his advice to a particular principle: Heed the Bard.
He reveres Act 3, Scene 2 of “Hamlet,” to be specific. When the Danish prince addresses a troupe of actors, he encourages them to speak “trippingly on the tongue” and “to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature.”