If there was a young, attractive young man played the guy who shot himself at the end, i was always the old guy with gout. They used to call me captain velcro in drama school because i played all the small parts. So, i realised very early on that nobody would want me to be me because, in reality, i dont think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. Oh, my goodness. Youve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the Acting Profession. Is that something that youve found. Youve had to come to terms with, or was it always an easy thing to accept . No, ifound it very liberating to become somebody else, to become kind of. To. Not to lose myself, but to explore other personalities and other characters. But what youve also said is that you were, from the beginning, never really the lead, never the sort of the glamour, more the. And the phrase would be the character actor. Yes. And i was very comfortabl
Who played the old man in the chekhov piece. If there was a young, attractive young man played the guy who shot himself at the end, i was always the old guy with gout. They used to call me captain velcro in drama school because i played all the small parts. So, i realised very early on that nobody would want me to be me because, in reality, i dont think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. Oh, my goodness. Youve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the Acting Profession. Is that something that youve found. Youve had to come to terms with, or was it always an easy thing to accept . No, ifound it very liberating to become somebody else, to become kind of. To. Not to lose myself, but to explore other personalities and other characters. But what youve also said is that you were, from the beginning, never really the lead, never the sort of the glamour, more the. And the phrase would be the ch
Eddie marsan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Nice to be here. You do seem to be that rare breed as an actor, a guy who is constantly, permanently busy. How do you manage it . I just. I think when i first started in drama school, i was always the guy who played the old man in the chekhov piece. If there was a young, attractive young man played the guy who shot himself at the end, i was always the old guy with gout. They used to call me captain velcro in drama school because i played all the small parts. So, i realised very early on that nobody would want me to be me because, in reality, i dont think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. Oh, my goodness. Youve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the Acting Profession. Is that something that youve found. Youve had to come to terms with, or was it always an easy thing to accept . No, ifound it very liberating to become somebody else, to bec
And they gave me great opportunities. That reminds me of something that the Black British actor David Harewood has said. Yes. That he found that when he went to america, opportunities, parts opened up to him that were never offered to him in the uk because uk casting directors, producers saw him in a particular way and that he was freed from that in america. Yes. Is that. Are youre saying the same sort of thing . 100 . Not about race but about class . Class, ioo . I went over to. When i went over to america, i was doing. I was doing ray donovan. And then, they asked me to play. Theyve just asked me to play john adams, for instance. And Thats Something that the british would never do. When i was first doing ajob in. When i was first in ray donovan, my agent called me. She said, theyre doing richard iii, the bbc, and theyre going to offer you a part. Now, i played richard iii onstage, i toured and played richard iii. So, i thought, ok, i wont play
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