- Ernest has requested a duet, Schubert.
- I was determined to learn that, so I am pleased that that is in there because I think it's important.
It wasn't easy.
- I believe the Primo part is more difficult.
- I have never had a problem with it.
- I think the piano duet is a real moment where things shift.
The reason being is I think that if you're young and you're idealistic and you have ideas and thoughts and-- particularly, in Victoria's position, where people have been dictating to her how to behave, there's a stubbornness to both these characters, and I think what happens in the piano scene is the chemicals take over, the body takes over, the animal takes over, and from then on in, I think they're on a dead-set course to end up where they do.
- You play very well, cousin.
- So there's, that's the beginning of the frisson, I think.
But I think the ballroom dance is pretty romantic.
- You dance beautifully.
- It's hard sometimes to find the rhythm, not with you.
- I love the scene when Albert's fencing and Victoria comes to kind of take him on.
I think because there's such a, a bravery in the emotional honesty there between two people.
And I don't think a relationship can work without that.
Romance, actually, is supported by honesty, and I think that it's the honesty between them that I adore.
