text: As Simon Callow once said : `` Gambon 's iron lungs and overwhelming charisma are able to command a sort of operatic full-throatedness which triumphs over hard walls and long distances '' .
simplified: As Simon Callow once said : â Gambon 's â iron lungs and overwhelming charisma are able to command a sort of operatic full-throatedness which triumphs over hard walls and long distances .