Derek Jacobi's King Lear: 'I've always felt slightly young for the role, but now I'm 72…' | Interview
Derek Jacobi talks candidly about young love, old friends, and why he feels ready for Shakespeare's mad monarchFor at least a decade and a half, interviewers have been asking Derek Jacobi when he'll play King Lear. It's the role that has been looming over him like, well, like old age itself. And for the last decade and a half, he's been replying that he'll do it when he feels old enough. That he needs to be ready. Th…