What's fun is that the four actors are The Doctor, The Master, Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty.

Benedict: performative
Andrew: feverish
David: conflicted
John: heartbroken

Simm is controlled and delivers each line as if the words he speaks are part of his everyday natural conversation. You forget it's Shakespeare. Cumberbatch's interpretation demonstrates a very deeply inflicted, conflicted and afflicted Hamlet. Tennant's Hamlet is full of angst and confusion and relatable, even. Scott's Hamlet is a socially awkward, ironic and demure interpretation; almost as if he's naive and hounded by the world around him.

I really liked the petulance of Tennant’s Hamlet, he seems more like a teenager/ young adult than the others, but I just loveee seeing different interpretations and people’s reactions to them

Gotta say David Tennant was by far the best Hamlet I've ever seen, that whole production was perfection. This scene is a great example of why. David is the only one not talking to the audience, he's just thinking out loud. He's also breaking down the scrip to bite-sized bits and giving just enough pause between them for us to process the unfamiliar language. The combination of the two gave his performance a believability most others lack. Benedict Cumberbatch is a performance I've not seen yet, and after this preview, I'm convinced I haven't missed anything. Hamlet isn't going mad in this scene, he's plotting, planning, and justifying; he's a good man plotting evil.

I actually really like Scott's performance. It's different from what I usually see (akin to Tennant/Cumberbatch) and idk it made it kind of interesting. Like everyone deals w grief and anger differently and expresses it differently, and it's nice to see that kind of variance in these performances. Scott's might not be as traditionally Shakespearean of a performance but it sounds like my own internal monologue.

Still Tennant's acting is top for me

I had the good fortune to see Tennant in the RSC production in Stratford upon Avon. I'd seen Hamlet performed about half a dozen times before then, but I felt like I was seeing it for the first time. I made connections in the story and dialog that I had completely missed before. Yes, Tennant was amazing, but so was the entire cast (except that Patrick Stewart never looked up, so all I could see from the balcony was the top of his shiny, bald head).

I was so into it, in fact, that when Tennant said the line "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space", I found myself thinking, "Huh, that actually sounds like something the Doctor would say." THEN I remembered who was playing Hamlet and had to stifle a giggle.

I love seeing everyone liking different versions!! it's exactly what i love about shakespeare. it can be an entirely different play depending on how you stage and act it. the transitions between cumberbatch & scott's performances particularly were jarring and wonderfully, wildly different. amazing.

I appreciate them all.
No comparison.

Thanks for this theatrical "sampler plate", it was intreging to see the differences in these 4 actors' take on Hamlet.  Each one showed the inner agony of the character: Simm through cool resolve; Cumberbatch with volcanic greif; Tennant with a seething quest for revenge; and finally Scott's take - sad and broken, socially awkward, just trying to find peace.  I'd willing watch all four performances in their entirety.

David Tennant’s character in Good Omens attends Hamlet, “oh not one of Shakespeare’s gloomy ones!”

Anyone watching these four recordings should note that the technical circumstances are different. As I see it, one of the shots is quite old and was shot with a fixed camera, the actor can't play with the change of position. In addition, three were shot for TV screens while (I think) Cumberbatch was acting on stage, and were recorded. You always have to act more artificially on stage than on camera. Much wider movements are required as the small details are not visible to distant viewers.

I'd seen clips from Scott's Hamlet before and found it really good. Seeing this I also really love Tennant's rendition. Those two are my favourites.

Benedict and Andrew are complete opposites in this ahah, Scott is so soft 😭😂

Tennant stands out above them all. Lives it as his own.

They’re all very impressive, but John Simm is a revelation

Ben scares me when he yells

Each one of them speak to a different part of my brain. What a luxurious sample.

John Simm was amazing in Hamlet at Sheffield a few years ago. Emotive, dramatic, haunted. Love all these versions but John is my favourite.