My fairly niche Much Ado About Nothing take is that Don John should be a teenager. Give me sulky teen Don John being dragged along by his much older half brother. He’s “not of many words” because he doesn’t want to be there, and he’s on his phone in every group scene. Conrade and Borachio are his little high school buddies who suck. Everyone else is having a great time as twenty-/thirty-year-olds and Don John is bored out of his mind and decides to cause problems on purpose.