So there's a lot more guess work that goes on in making a movie but when you get a chance to rehearse a play over five or six weeks, you know I just had this opportunity now to do double duty almost the closest to doing repertory theatre I've ever experienced, we're performing one in the evening and rehearsing another during the daytime.

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Lady Viola also continues to rehearse the play, all the while trying to maintain the scam that she's a male ... even as other people are catching glimpses of her and Will necking backstage.

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