“I didn't even know who Laurence Olivier was,” admits a wonderfully entertaining Michael Gambon of his audition for the National Theatre.
Gambon is the pick of these interviews with British actors, particularly his confrontation with Peter O'Toole as a callow youth – “Was it hot?” he asks about his time on Laurence of Arabia. The other actors talking to camer
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