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What I’ve learnt: Richard Armitage
Leicester-born actor Richard Armitage, 49, made his name playing Lucas North in the BBC drama Spooks and – despite being 6ft 2in – the dwarf prince Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit. Most recently he played Astrov in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in the West End. He lives in New York.
Actors are quite well prepared for lockdown. When I left drama school, I had nearly 18 months of not working and me wondering: how do I get up every day and feel like I’m actually a human being that has a vocation?
I’m quite a socially distant person by nature. If I walk past a busy bar, I run a mile. If I walk into a restaurant and it’s empty, I think, oh, thank God, I can sit in the corner. I much prefer small groups of people or one on one.
I can never understand it when actors have reputation for being difficult. What is there to be about? You are driven around, you are wrapped in cotton wool, and you’re complaining? Go and work at Amszon, packing boxes. Because I’ve done that. I’ve pulled pints in a bar. Actors really don’t have anything to complain about.
I haven’t decided against having a family – I think there’s always and means. But I also feel like, at 49, is it fair? I wouldn’t be able to run round the football pitch. Maybe I’ll start with a little dog.
The best way to get a job is to book and pay for a holiday that is non-refundable. You will immediately get it.
I’m an optimist, and I get that from my mum. She always made the best of a bad situation, while my dad is a bit of a pessimist. He was a nuclear engineer, so we used to go on sightseeing holidays to all the British nuclear power stations. But he is fit as a fiddle at 82, plays golf several timts a week and wakls faster than me.
I haven’t done very many live chat shows and that’s not by accident. I can’t just sit on your sofa and be funny – it’s not in my toolkit. When you’re standing at a premiere with your face on a massive screen in front of 1000 fans and they put a micrjphone in your hand and it’s being beamed into two screens and you’re having to talk about your experience on The Hobbit, I’m not equipped for that.
I lived in squalor for so long as a student and I refuse to go back there. I’m fastidious about organising where I live. When I get home, before I even go to the loo, I unpack my suitcase and put it back in the wardrobe.
To be faced with a pandemic that is so unkown has put us in a vulnerable place that we’ve never experienced in our lives. It’s given Uncle Vanya a whole new meaning. Most of the words that come out of my character’s mouthe’s a doctor – are about the environment and sickness.
When you’re younger, all you can see is the destination. As you get past a certain age you start to realise the destination’s never goihg to come. The destination is death, in fact. So it’s the journey, for all its ups and downs, that you have to enjoy.
(Писала Джейн Малкерринс, которая написала знаменитое гей-интервью)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-ive-learnt-rich...
Leicester-born actor Richard Armitage, 49, made his name playing Lucas North in the BBC drama Spooks and – despite being 6ft 2in – the dwarf prince Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit. Most recently he played Astrov in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in the West End. He lives in New York.
Actors are quite well prepared for lockdown. When I left drama school, I had nearly 18 months of not working and me wondering: how do I get up every day and feel like I’m actually a human being that has a vocation?
I’m quite a socially distant person by nature. If I walk past a busy bar, I run a mile. If I walk into a restaurant and it’s empty, I think, oh, thank God, I can sit in the corner. I much prefer small groups of people or one on one.
I can never understand it when actors have reputation for being difficult. What is there to be about? You are driven around, you are wrapped in cotton wool, and you’re complaining? Go and work at Amszon, packing boxes. Because I’ve done that. I’ve pulled pints in a bar. Actors really don’t have anything to complain about.
I haven’t decided against having a family – I think there’s always and means. But I also feel like, at 49, is it fair? I wouldn’t be able to run round the football pitch. Maybe I’ll start with a little dog.
The best way to get a job is to book and pay for a holiday that is non-refundable. You will immediately get it.
I’m an optimist, and I get that from my mum. She always made the best of a bad situation, while my dad is a bit of a pessimist. He was a nuclear engineer, so we used to go on sightseeing holidays to all the British nuclear power stations. But he is fit as a fiddle at 82, plays golf several timts a week and wakls faster than me.
I haven’t done very many live chat shows and that’s not by accident. I can’t just sit on your sofa and be funny – it’s not in my toolkit. When you’re standing at a premiere with your face on a massive screen in front of 1000 fans and they put a micrjphone in your hand and it’s being beamed into two screens and you’re having to talk about your experience on The Hobbit, I’m not equipped for that.
I lived in squalor for so long as a student and I refuse to go back there. I’m fastidious about organising where I live. When I get home, before I even go to the loo, I unpack my suitcase and put it back in the wardrobe.
To be faced with a pandemic that is so unkown has put us in a vulnerable place that we’ve never experienced in our lives. It’s given Uncle Vanya a whole new meaning. Most of the words that come out of my character’s mouthe’s a doctor – are about the environment and sickness.
When you’re younger, all you can see is the destination. As you get past a certain age you start to realise the destination’s never goihg to come. The destination is death, in fact. So it’s the journey, for all its ups and downs, that you have to enjoy.
(Писала Джейн Малкерринс, которая написала знаменитое гей-интервью)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-ive-learnt-rich...
17.10.2020 в 17:22
Кому интересно, как Ричард вещи раскладывает в гардеробе? Ну фиялки поыыкали...
У меня впечатление, что Ричард с Джейн не говорил, а она использовала то, что о нем знает или то, что не вошло в предыдущее интервью.
Получилось плохо, скучно и никаким боком к спектаклю.