OLIVIER’S INSIGHT ON IAGO’S MOTIVATION.
OLIVIER’S INSIGHT ON IAGO’S MOTIVATION. I can’t find it using Google, but long ago I read an interview with Olivier about Iago’s motivation. Olivier said that when he was young, he had trouble playing Iago because he could not understand Iago’s motivation. Then he had an insight during his service in World War II. Another man got an assignment that Olivier had coveted, and Olivier found himself consumed by rage against the person who had beaten him out. He then realized that the primary motive that Shakespeare ascribes to Iago was plausible, and said that he never had a problem with understanding Iago thereafter.