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 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 p
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
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In this scenario, if theres a villain and a victim, you can name the Villain And Name the victim. Who are you . And as an actor, i knew, as a Working Class actor, there were lots of very well meaning progressive film makers, middle Class Film makers who would tell me about the world being villains and victims but, actually, what they werent aware of was their own narcissism, that they were the heroes of the story, not the victims. Because, as a victim, if you try to change their definition of you, if you try to step outside of their definition of you, you destroy their own narcissistic narrative. And so, and so, i. When i approached mitch to play mitch. And you talked to him quite a lot. I met up with him about three Orfour Times and i asked him for. He was my main source of research. I asked for photographs. I asked him to record a song for me. I asked for a playlist of his favourite music. I asked what aftershave he wore