combatting china. president biden will spend the next days in south korea before heading to japan to meet with leaders there. before returning home to d.c. on tuesday, he ll attend a meeting of the quad leaders. which includes japan, india, and australia. and in ukraine, russian forces are stepping up attacks on the eastern donbas region. at least 12 people were killed and 40 injured after russia unleashed new rounds of shelling in a key city in luhansk. one of the few ukrainian strong holds standing in the way of russia seizing full control of the don bass. the attacks could be a precursor to a larger drawn out battle. president volodymyr zelenskyy called the strikes, quote, brutal and completely pointless. willie. meanwhile, the u.k. ministry of defense has released new information reporting the battle for mariupol has left the russian military weakened. the fierce fighting against ukrainian troops who held out inside of that steel plant has depleted russia s ranks and re
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 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
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
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