The Assassination of Julius Caesar

There's always a tendency with these famous figures from history that they become identified with one element in their life. You can't really talk about Winston Churchill without talking about 1940 and the Second World War, in spite of all the other stuff he did. With Julius Caesar, it's the last years of his life. It's the Civil War, the dictatorship, and then this spectacular assassination. How many other figures in history have been murdered in quite such a dramatic way? Fast forward to some 2000 years. We're in Culver City, Los Angeles, on the backlot of the old Hollywood studio MGM. A young actor comes forward: 'I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him