A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

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  What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certain

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• Richard McCabe:

  As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

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• Richard McCabe:

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• Richard McCabe:

  Music has always been profoundly important to me.

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  I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker

• Richard McCabe:

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• Richard McCabe:

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• Richard McCabe:

  Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.