Kenneth Branagh is a master of the Shakespearean stage but things haven’t always gone swimmingly for the Oscar-winning star of the Royal Shakespeare Company ‘s (RSC) upcoming version of The Tempest .

Speaking to the BBC’s Today program this morning, Branagh recalled a time when things went badly wrong for the budding young thespian during a production of Henry V in Stratford-upon-Avon when he was just 23 years old.

“I forgot the gloves that I needed to return to the character at the last part of the play upon which much of the plot depended,” Branagh admitted to the show. “So I made up a lot of the Shakespeare and I thought I had got away with it.”

Branagh, who went on to be twice-Oscar nominated for 1990’s Henry V movie, thought all was fine but on his way home, “a car slow

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