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A princess and a saucy lackey: the actors' guide to Rosalind in As You Like It by Matt Trueman

She's the cross-dressing heroine who leaves the court and is set free in the forest of Arden. Ronald Pickup and Michelle Terry, who played Rosalind 40 years apart, explain how they approached the roleI was watching a rehearsal in the Old Vic when John Dexter, one of Laurence Olivier's associate directors at the National, leaned over and said: "Get a fucking pair of legs. You're going to play Rosalind in a year's time…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AM on July 13, 2015

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