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
the move was announced after a closed meeting of the security council at which sunday s deaths at a displaced persons camp were discussed. palestinian officials say twenty one people were killed by strikes on a refugee camp in al mawasi, west of rafah, yesterday. israel has denied firing at the area. lucy williamson has sent this report from jerusalem. rafah was once gaza s refuge, the safest place in a dangerous war. today, the city s west and centre was emptying, those still sheltering here fleeing again amid air strikes and artillery fire. taking whatever they need to survive, whatever they can t leave behind. there s been no evacuation order from israel s army and for many, no sense of where to go. translation: i m just walking in the street, l i don t know where to go, there is nowhere safe. where should we go? this is not a life, this is not a life. they were packing up, too, in the displacement camp at tal al sultan to the west of the city, still scarred by fires trigg