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Kenneth Branagh on Mayday, Method Russian and Tricky Tenet
Sir Kenneth Branagh has played Hamlet, Henry V and Hercule Poirot. For Mayday, he took on something trickier: an ex-KGB agent with a soft spot for American culture, and a Russian accent that has to land the jokes without turning him into a cartoon. We pressed the Oscar-winner and our first Knight of the Realm guest (no less) on whether accents get any easier with time. His answer is part science, part detective work. Branagh also reveals the method promise he made to Ryan Reynolds and the Mayday crew, which didn’t go according to plan, and the question he asked Christopher Nolan on Tenet that had him wishing he hadn’t thought of it.
