The hours you work are incredible. But beyond that as well, Anne-Marie [wife Anne-Marie Duff ] and I both seem to get the kind of jobs where you put yourself through the wringer. I just got to float about saying lines that Professor X thought were slightly humorous. But generally the work we get is quite emotionally demanding. I think I'd love Harry. He's a proper, man. He's like, "I'm never gonna be the king, it's cool. Can't I just act it, darling?
I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead. If you can't empathise and imagine what it is like to be somebody from somewhere else your world becomes very small and you can only do one thing. I came out being able to do a lot of the stuff that I've done. It is one of those parts, those plays, where the audience is willing you to dash yourself on the rocks, both artistically and actually a little bit.
It's all very controlled and we're trying to make sure nothing like that would ever happen of course, but we have to go so far to make people feel like anything could happen, make it seem like we are on the verge of losing control. That's not only a hard line to ride, it's also an exhausting one.
But I'm loving it, absolutely loving it. It is not what you usually expect from me. It is not Trainspotting It is very Irvine Welsh but it has got its own voice. At the beginning of my career I just set out to hopefully dupe people into giving me any kind of work, and that was a lot of character work.
I was just happy to get anything and I'm lucky that I've not been pigeon-holed too much. I've started to plan things a bit more now, but until the last three or four years I never really planned anything. What I do as an actor. I don't go, 'What's the truth of this scene, what should I be playing for the truth of this moment? I look at what I want the audience to feel, and I work back from that.
I probably have the audience at the forefront of my mind for most movies, but particularly for Filth , because half the fun of this film is in pulling the audience from pillar to post in terms of how much they can take.
You never quite know where the line is in terms of humour, in terms of your emotional connection to the character, in terms of right or wrong, in terms of your allegiance to him, in terms of your empathy and sympathy, in terms of your repulsion to him. And just as he's becoming vulnerable and drawing you in, he forces a fifteen year-old girl to give him a blowjob.
So he's constantly moving the line in the sand. And you're constantly asking the audience to cross that line. I don't have a middle name. When actors are lucky enough to get work their worry starts to become: 'will I get anything as good as that again?
Maybe I need to deal with the fact that I will never get anything as interesting as that again. I don't even mean for the audience, I mean just for myself. Bruce came easier than any other part I've played, which is terrifying, because he is a demon, he is a proper son of Satan, although the truth he is just like any one of us who has gone horrendously bad. I actually loved him. I would love to do a skydive, because I like anything to do with heights.
But that will have to wait for now. But I do still use my motorbike. After the birth of [his son] Brendan I was all set to sell it, but my wife insisted it was a part of my personality. However, I do drive on secure tracks - it's much safer than in normal traffic. You're partly leading the company, helping to set the tone and the example of the work ethic. You are colouring the production with every choice you make, and you've got to do that on purpose, and not be so precious and gentle with it.
Suddenly, I was around people who weren't afraid of being slightly different or called names, or singing a song, or playing in a band. I could suddenly stop being afraid to be different, or to aim for something, or to ask for something, or of being bullied. I wouldn't have believed you. I didn't even think about acting until I was acting. My grandparents were always very strict with me, my mother, too.
I know it may sound as if things were quite difficult, unstable or whatever, but in fact they weren't at all. I was very happy as a child, even though I was never let out of the door on my own until I was In a way I think that stopped me from getting into mischief, but I don't think I was ever that mischievous anyway.
I take my job very seriously and if I start acting like an idiot off screen, I lose that respect. It was a brave move in my neighbourhood. I've only done it once on the red carpet. Never again. I'm always on the hunt for something new, a character I have never played before. Thanks to X-Men I have a certain amount of financial freedom. When I know I'll be making another blockbuster in a couple of years' time, I can afford to say yes to smaller projects with smaller budgets.
I don't trust politicians at the moment. Why suddenly believe them now? Whether it turns out bad or good, you can make the best of independence. We could be [rich] for four years, but then we might not be. That's what happens. Ask any Scotsman who wants independence whether they want to shed blood for it. I don't think they'd say yes. You can't control your career as an actor.
If you could strategise your way to the top, then everybody would be successful and playing the leads in movies where they're commanding millions of dollars. And they're not. You can't. There are better actors than me who are struggling, and there are worse actors than me who are coining it in.
Luckily for me, the work has just kept coming. That made the make-up artists' jobs very nice and easy the next day. I really am thrifty. When it comes to the people I love, I'm generous, but I don't need much. I spend money on groceries and pay my bills. Every now and again I'll allow myself a chocolate bar. I'm joking but seriously, I'm careful with my money.
I learnt that from my grandparents. That was always very important to me, not to be in debt to anyone, money-wise. I was determined not to take any money off my mother or my grandparents after I was I didn't want to be in a film that featured a couple dealing with the death of their child. It took two years after the birth of Brendan for me to be at enough of a distance to take on the story. For me, it's about a guy with huge trauma: firstly post-traumatic stress disorder, but also the trauma of not being able to have a child.
I've been doing a lot of that sort of stuff lately. Because when they asked me to do it, they needed a quick answer because they were going to lose financing. So I got the script from my old original email from two years previously and just read that and said 'I'm up for it! Eh, nevermind. And Jess [ Jessica Chastain ] only found out today.
It's a fairly hard story to grasp onto anyway. You think it's about a murder case but actually it's about his chase for a promotion, then hopefully you realise what's holding the film together is his deteriorating mental state. You finally, around 50 minutes in, get the true revelation of what you are really watching.
You are watching this man's mind explode. So entertaining superfluous stuff just had to go. It was a strange day, getting humped by a dog. It wasn't just the dog, it was also the camera and the boom.
There were a lot of different things humping my leg at different times of the day. My favourite bit of that scene is when I get it in my mouth by accident. That's one of my favourite bits of the movie, and it's not even in the movie. I've not had a fried Mars Bar since I was about 21, but they're good, man. And I swore. I usually swear a lot, but I swore a great deal more when making the film and my wife kept telling me to watch my mouth and not to swear around the kid.
I've made biscuits, cookies, cupcakes and stuff like that for my kid recently, but other than that I can't really bake bread or anything. Earlier in my career, I used to look at other actors and maybe steal a move here or there, but as I have gotten older, I prefer releasing the idiosyncratic quality that every single person has. That is truly interesting. In the pursuit of pretending and making things seem real, what is really interesting is watching somebody on camera or on stage releasing things that only they could.
That is really beautiful. So it's very strange. I don't know what that is. I play people who are suffering and I will be having a great old time. Maybe to improve my own personal happiness [laughs]. Maybe there is lightness in Scottish characters, but I'm not interested in finding it. I'm really happy with what I've portrayed of Scotland so far, even if it is dark and demonic.
My last day on the film [ Filth ] was on the "Reeperbahn", at midnight, face-down, on the concrete with extras and real people and real prostitutes walking past me and not giving me much attention. And if it doesn't, the Reeperbahn will. It was also the end of the shoot and I was really done. I loved playing Bruce [Robertson] and I'm sad that I'll never play him again, but at that moment I was glad that it was the end. As seen already, James McAvoy takes action scenes very seriously, sometimes even at the expense of his personal safety.
Another time the actor displayed this habit was during the filming of 's "Filth. At the time of the movie's filming, some news outlets were reporting that McAvoy had asked a German escort to punch him for real in the scene. His scene partner was a German actress, not an escort. But McAvoy did indeed ask her to punch him for real. As director Jon S. Baird kept an eye on the camera, McAvoy briefly moved his mouth away from the lens and asked her to hit him in the face with full force.
His co-star obliged with a haymaker that the actor described as "rather good. Most times, James McAvoy is the picture of professionalism in front of the camera. But the actor's famously intense focus is capable of being shaken. Something like that happened on the sets of 's "Becoming Jane," when McAvoy was seduced by the dark powers of the Xbox gaming console.
You're going to ruin the job for me. Not only did the long hours of gaming leave McAvoy completely exhausted on set, but he also kept forgetting his lines since his mind was taken up with the magical fantasy world of the best-selling video game. Finally, the actor decided he needed to take drastic steps to regain his professional focus.
James McAvoy's performance as Kevin Wendell Crumb in 's "Split" and its follow-up, 's "Glass," is generally agreed to be one of the very best of his entire career.
As a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder, McAvoy was required to play a string of wildly different characters, often in a single scene, including the towering and bestial presence known as the "The Beast. In one of the scenes, the actor takes out his rage on a metal door with a hard punch. The searing pain in his hand let McAvoy know immediately that something had gone horribly wrong. And the director of the film, M. Night Shyamalan , could tell as well, according to the actor.
But that is not the only time that McAvoy found himself playing a character made popular by Stewart. Apart from film and television, both actors are also celebrated Shakespearean stage actors. Changing your physical size and shape for a role has long been seen as the mark of a serious Method actor , despite the plethora of medical problems it can create for the actor later. Most of the roles that James McAvoy has done over the years have needed little change to his physique, but when the occasion demands it, the actor believes in going all out.
For "Split," one of the 23 alternate personalities McAvoy needed to portray was the towering strongman called "The Beast. Two years later in , McAvoy reprised his role as the main character from "Split" in "Glass.
But its not always extra muscle that McAvoy needs for a role. His lead part in "Filth" required the actor to look convincingly out-of-shape and uncaring about his personal health. To pull off the look, McAvoy began chain smoking and drinking whisky heavily as a way to feel close to his character. I didn't have to drink — but it helped me feel like a bag of smashed crabs in the morning.
Whatever physical changes a role requires, McAvoy is only too happy to comply. One time, this eagerness came back to bite him. When McAvoy learned that he would be playing the role of a younger Professor Charles Xavier in "X-Men: First Class," he decided to get the physical transformation out of the way first by shaving his head completely bald.
This turned out to be a mistake, since the makers of the movie intended to show the younger Xavier having a full head of hair. McAvoy explained the amusing mix-up to the Hollywood Reporter when talking about his journey as Professor X. Serious actors are often careful about the kinds of roles they take up in order to preserve an impeccable resume of impressive performances in critically acclaimed movies.
What do I call you? Inebriated or not, Shyamalan saw something he liked. One month later, he was on the set of Split in a role that Joaquin Phoenix was originally set to play, but dropped out of at the last minute. Jackson, and was impressed by what he saw. When asked about the secret to his success, McAvoy doesn't mince words: "I got lucky," he told The Talks. Through that one job I met people from England, I met people from America, and I met people from all over the place with challenging points of view and sympathetic points of view to mine.
And then I went to a youth theater for six months as well, and that expanded my mind massively. I got really lucky. I got really, really lucky. BY Hannah Wigandt. He was raised by his grandparents.
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