55th BFI London Film Festival Anonymous

Roland Emmerich normally spends his time smashing up the world, but his latest film Anonymous is explosive for a very different reason. Did William Shakespeare really write all those plays sonnets, or was it a person or persons other Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Jamie Campbell Bower, David Thewlis and Rafe Spall lead a massive ensemble cast in Emmerich s rich, layered and passionate Elizabethan drama. And we talked to as many of them as was humanly possible, on the red carpet of