Among Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar adaptations, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1953 film is a favorite of mine. Marlon Brando wrote in his autobiography, Songs My Mother Taught Me about the challenges and uncertainties he faced acting alongside great English actors like John Gielgud and James Mason. My favorite scene is where Caesar talking to Mark Antony and pointing to Cassius and says “Let me have men about me that are fat Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much such men are dangerous.
