Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.
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What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.
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I like to go for auditions. I enjoy that aspect of this job until I actually need a job, and then that becomes a problem. The worst thing is to build yourself up for a role and not get it, so now I'm just taking every day as it comes and trying not to rely on anything.
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You feel that your character is special. It's not your normal nine-to-five. You're not someone who goes home and lives a normal life.
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An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
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Generally, nowadays, I'm using my own accent because casting directors want it; they like that.
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When I first started acting, I never thought I'd be on TV or film. I always wanted to be on stage.
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There's not many jobs that I would put my body on the line for.
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I love my Nike Air Max trainers. They're big and bulky and spanking - I can't be doing with grubby trainers.