My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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I was brought up in a world of privilege.
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I have actual acting scars.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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As an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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I’ve said for quite a long time I’d like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we’ve been away two years, let’s f*** around with his outfit, let’s f*** around with his haircut, let’s do something different.
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