Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' has big stars. But it's Kathryn Hunter who steals the show
A few months before shooting began on director Joel Coen's new adaptation of Shakespeare's "Tragedy of Macbeth," he and the film's producer and star Frances McDormand met in a London hotel room with British theater veteran Kathryn Hunter, who was to portray the play's supernaturally prophetic Three Witches.
There was no bubbling cauldron or eye of newt or toe of frog involved. But McDormand says there was some kind of enchantment at work.
"We said, 'Let's just talk about how you envision this physically,'" says McDormand, who plays Lady Macbeth in the film and is married to Coen. "Kathryn got up on the coffee table,
