By EMILY MITCHELL/Reported by Wendy Cole

Inside every macho actor is a melancholy Prince of Denmark waiting to get out. Director Franco Zeffirelli saw Mel Gibson in Mad Max and Lethal Weapon and, he says, "I wanted to make Hamlet with him. He was my only choice." The film, with Glenn Close as Hamlet's mother, will be released in December. And does the Australian actor speak the speech as Shakespeare wrote it, trippingly on the tongue?