JOSH GLANCY
Mark Rylance: my evening with the quack-loving, but delightful moonbat
He may be our greatest living actor but even he admits ‘reasonable people think I’m crazy’
Point of view: Mark Rylance in Dr Semmelweis, the play he co-wrote
GERAINT LEWIS
The Sunday Times
It’s not often that a world-famous actor calls you after an interview to clarify that he isn’t a Holocaust denier, but Mark Rylance was a bit anxious after our chat last week. “I didn’t know you were Jewish when we first met,” he explained. “Everything should be questioned,” he went on, but in the case of the Holocaust, only so that the deniers and their “poison” aren’t left to fester underground.
Don’t worry, I assured him, I didn’t think he was a Holocaust denier. I did, however, come away with the firm conviction that he is a quack-loving, Corbyn- and Russia-apologising, Shakespeare-denying, vax-sceptical moonbat of the absolute first order. Totally crackers. The strange thing was, given that I am resolutely none of these things, I
