As for the Whishaw production, he hardly remembers it: Laertes has a two-and-a-half hour break in the show, so “I wasn’t around much”. Wasn’t he backstage? He looks sheepish: at the time, Kinnear lived 10 minutes’ walk from the Old Vic, so would pop home to eat dinner and watch the European Championships on TV, “then return for a quick fence and a howl”.