Tom Stoppard's Guildenstern: a role worth waiting in the wings for
After years of playing minor characters, it was this eternal bit-parter who put me in the spotlightLaurence Olivier handed me the script in his office, saying: "Marvellous part, marvellous play." And that was almost the end of the interview. I simply asked: "What about Celia?" I'd been told I might be going to play that role in an all-male As You Like It, but that production was now on hold, and I found myself cast i…