The dirty LITTLE secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is SHOWING up. If you can find a way to GET there, the STORY, the reporting, it's the EASIEST you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.
I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me ALONG and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie BEHAVIOR. It was GREAT. Once you have 'The Cosby SHOW' on your resume, you can keep GOING.
When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood SCIENCEFICTION. That was a very POLITICAL drama, but set in spaceships so PEOPLE didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.
I NEVER went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified actor.' But I did THINK that 'House' was SOMETHING I didn't have to apologise for. It was something I was REALLY proud of and it was sort of... whether you liked it or not, it was undeniable.
Particularly for ENGLISHPEOPLE, SHAKESPEARE is ALWAYS at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't REMEMBER starting school and not learning about him.
'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's ALSO a commentary on the IDEA that in ORDER for rap to survive, we have to STRETCH out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can't be this narrow - we have to stretch out the POINT of view.
The RUSSIAN drama BEGAN at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other NEW countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, FINANCIAL, social and political CHALLENGE.
I had a great drama teacher, and he SORT of made out drama school as this INCREDIBLY difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every YEAR, and some of the SCHOOLS only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I WANTED that challenge.