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Brian Molko: And it's been, it's been such a pleasure getting to do it and such a lovely collaboration. I really, really dreamt that the music would begin to influence the action on stage and the movement on the stage, then you guys sent me a bit of a rehearsal tape, and there Mark was with the other actors doing a choreography to one of our songs, and that was just… it's happened my while this dream. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Creating the Music with Placebo

Sean [Linnen] texted me and said, you ever thought about Arturo Uri? And I said, I've thought about nothing else. What the play does is parallel the events that gave rise to the Nazi party allegorically. So there's a sort of protection racket around cauliflowers. It's all about vegetables, which is a funny kind of way of making it sort of innocuous. And yet there's something really sinister about that idea, I think. Getting into character is a combination of things, obviously, I have to watch a lot of interviews and study the voice and the mannerisms and then I've just got to work on it with Sean and the rest of the cast. It's a remarkable play I think. It's really important and savage at times but it's also great fun.

Edit of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui RSC, The Swan, Stratford-Upon-Avon Video: channel4.com and @louisa.granelly Music: Placebo

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Audio of two scenes with Mark Gatiss in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2026)

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'It's like a punch in the face… and that can be funny too' — Mark Gatiss about The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

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Featuring Mark Gatiss

Freddie Fox: Mark actually was playing John Gielgud on stage during the week, then would come and shoot with us at the weekend, completely knackered but still knocking it out of the park!