 The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what`s more interesting is always what`s not being said. I owe my father everything.
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I hate that term, "Method". It`s definitely been given to me over the years, but I don`t know if it`s true. My belief is that every actor`s got their own "method", and as long as it works, that`s OK.
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I`m in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
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The darker the character, the more interesting.
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People like Jim Jarmusch or Spike Jonze make the kind of American cinema that really interests me. And working with them has, so far, been the only thing I haven`t been able to do. But other than that I`m perfectly happy with where I am.
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Biologically, I`m lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
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We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.
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Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.
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It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I`ve done up to 32 takes with him.
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Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don`t have to take it home with you at night. It`s the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
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I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don`t know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I`ll have a longer shelf life.
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Trivia
A partner in the British film production company 4 Ways along with Antonia Bird, Irvine Welsh and Mark Cousins.
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Son, Pearce Joseph, born April 2006 at Queen Mother's Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and formed his own theatre company, Rain Dog, in 1991.
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Son Harvey born March 2004.
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Ranked seventh in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of greatest British actors.
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Turned down a role in 28 Days Later... (2002) before taking a role in 28 Weeks Later (2007).
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Has not seen his estranged mother, Liz McDonald, since he was four years old.
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Founded a theater company in 1991.
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In 2002, his wife gave birth to a daughter, Ava.
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Awarded an OBE in the 1999 New Years honours list.
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At age 17 he once worked as a butcher.
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His father, Joe, died at age 76 on January 7, 2006, and was buried in Maryhill, Glasgow, on January 14th.
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Owns the Rain Dog Theatre Company, named after the album "Rain Dogs" by Tom Waits.
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