The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
The Virgin Suicides score is really good. Lots of Air. And About A Boy , that Hugh Grant movie, has lots of cool stuff by Badly Drawn Boy. I had it on my Christmas list one year and my parents didn't get it because they thought I was kidding
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
Hurley, whose most famous film is Austin Powers International Man of Mystery, ... Four Weddings and a Funeral.
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.
Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.
I was thinking on the plane yesterday how pathetic it is to be dreading the read-through after 25 films and 18 years of acting. I mean real terror.
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