Elsinore

By 1989 acclaimed Scottish actor Ian Charleson (a sensational ), who had career-defining roles in Oscar-winning pictures (1981) and (1982), yearns for his next great role. For Charleson, a gay man with AIDS, navigating Hollywood and keeping his personal life private is a minefield, and he’s drawn to the idea of revisiting his stage-actor roots. When Daniel Day Lewis abandons Richard Eyre’s (, ) production of at the National Theatre mid-performance, Charleson is poised to take over the play’s title role.