It's very easy to have a charmless or boring Orsino and he manages to make you root for him.
I've seen two I really liked, Toby Stephens as an endearingly languishing disaster bi in the 1996 film and Liam Brennan in the 2014 Globe broadcast as a rare, non-Byronic Orsino, very bluff and man's man's and not a second of panic over his sudden, unpredicted, tongue-tying attraction to Cesario, he just has no idea what to do with it (do men . . . hug?) and spends the second half of the play in an escalating state of anxiety that he's just managed to acquire two unrequited crushes now, FML.
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Date: 2020-04-28 06:10 pm (UTC)I've seen two I really liked, Toby Stephens as an endearingly languishing disaster bi in the 1996 film and Liam Brennan in the 2014 Globe broadcast as a rare, non-Byronic Orsino, very bluff and man's man's and not a second of panic over his sudden, unpredicted, tongue-tying attraction to Cesario, he just has no idea what to do with it (do men . . . hug?) and spends the second half of the play in an escalating state of anxiety that he's just managed to acquire two unrequited crushes now, FML.