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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

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I tend to stay away from the comics.

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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: September 6th, 1972

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