Was there collusion between Jago and the journalist who overheard the first police commissioners racist remark?
Yes, that’s right. So, in fact, Jago is a schemer and dishonest from the start. At the beginning he’s trying to accelerate his own career by deliberately exposing the casual racism of his boss. What was your approach to Othello as a character? I’ve always had a problem with [Shakespeare’s] Othello because he never seems to listen to anyone except Iago. When in doubt, he goes into a long boast about things he’s done in the past. He’s full of windy bombast, in fact, although you do feel sorry for the poor bugger. I wanted to cut down on that, make him more of a man of action than a man of words. You also don’t get a terrific sense of connection between him and Desdemona. He doesn’t know her all that well. Love changes into something rather different and more complex when you know the other person extremely intimately. She’s from an entirely different background; I took that over from Shakespeare, but contemporized it. She’s a rich girl. She has a very powerful daddy. She’s from the estab
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