What first inspired your fascination with Richard III?
It was reading a book about the real man, from the contemporary source materials, by Paul Murray Kendall. Up until that point I thought Shakespeare's Richard III was who he was. Reading about Richard from his own lifetime utterly fascinated me. That book was what really ignited it because I thought how come we don't know this guy? It was a really big gap in our storytelling. I think the most valuable source material is from someone's own lifetime and I understand that with many historians they
