Rufus Sewell: 'I'm not nearly as rock'n'roll as I wanted to be'
Grief, anxiety, imposter syndrome, divorce – the actor on the ‘rocky road’ to happiness, and his most horrifying screen role yet
24 July 2021 • 5:00am
‘I thought I had the luxury of time… then I didn’t work for a year’: Rufus Sewell
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At the stroke of midnight on his 53rd birthday, Rufus Sewell swam out to sea and “felt 25 years of wrinkles slip away” from his skin. A nightly soak in saltwater had proved the best method for removing the layers of ageing prosthetics needed for his latest role – in Old, the new mystery thriller from The Sixth Sense director M Night Shyamalan.