class and that is something of a rarity in the performing arts. why? 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 don t think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. oh, my goodness. you ve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the acting profession. is that something that you ve found. you ve had to come to terms with, or was it always an
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 don t think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. oh, my goodness. you ve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the acting profession. is that something that you ve found. you ve 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 you ve 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 wa
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 don t think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. oh, my goodness. you ve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the acting profession. is that something that you ve found. you ve 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 you ve also said is that you were, from the beginning, never really the lead, never the sort of the glamour, more
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 don t think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. oh, my goodness. you ve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the acting profession. is that something that you ve found. you ve 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 you ve also said is that you were, from the beginning, never really the lead, never the sort of the glamour, more the. and the phrase
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 don t think men want to be me and women want to sleep with me so, i always had to be someone else. oh, my goodness. you ve started with such a sort of powerful and profound sort of statement of who you are and the acting profession. is that something that you ve found. you ve had to come to terms with, or was it always an easy thing to accept? no, ifound it very liberating to become somebod