Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed: Adventure makes me incredibly happy, whereas theater rarely, spasmodically, makes me happy, so I think my days in acting are numbered, The experiences of exploring have been huge and there are very few acting jobs that can match it. Seeing for hundreds of miles off these mountains opens cavities in your brain. And you yearn for them and yearn for them. Then you go into a theatre and you find the black hole of the auditorium claustrophobic. In the theatre world now I do get the feeling of being an impostor. It feels like I'm denying someone else a job. I feel I must stop soon and go and do my first love. I have got to that stage where I just desperately want to commit the rest of my life to adventures. At the end of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang next March I'll be going off for months and maybe that will be farewell to acting.