Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn’t a child actor brat; I didn’t travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.
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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 don’t wear a mask, I don’t have a suit. It’s not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!
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[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he’s not afraid to go to dark places.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
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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 don’t want to miss things.
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I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the 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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