Othello | Royal Shakespeare Company - Iago

Lucian Msamati discusses the character - Iago - in Iqbal Khan's production of Othello with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

One professor at Northwestern University once said to a lecture hall full of students that evil is infinitely more interesting than good.  It was a course in Shakespeare, so no one would quibble if any of us took it to mean evil in Shakespearean plays...  Nevertheless, there is probably a lot of truth if that statement were to refer generally to those figures or subjects that most command our attention, imagination and reactions.  Iago is a superb character study, precisely in this respect.  As Msamati clarifies, what motives his character is deeper, more dangerous, more emotional than something like race.