Rufus Sewell on SCOOP: I got an email from my agent mentioning that they were interested in me for it and I just thought, God, how fascinating. It was a thrill of being offered a really interesting character role that was scary and challenging. The offer reminded me of the kind of things that I used to get more chance to do, which is stuff that doesn't on paper look so much like me or what people would imagine would be my forte. It was exciting to have a chance to do something that I really felt that I could do, with work. Then, of course, I said yes and thought, Jesus Christ, what have I just said yes to? When I say I [knew I] could do it... that doesn't mean that failure is not possible. In any role where you go all out, there's always the chance that you will miss.
I worked on it for a while before I said yes. I would put my hair down, wipe my eyebrows out with a bit of powder and pad myself just to try to make myself believe myself. Certain people [in my life] thought I shouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
When the hair went on top, it came together and was kind of astonishing. My biggest concern was to just be left alone with it so it could feel like my face. The make-up team were extraordinary. Very early on they did something with my eyes – a lid on top of my eyes that made me look uncannily like him, but we couldn't use those because I couldn't express with my eyes. I couldn't open them fully if I blinked. They'd stick and it became apparent that to actually have full channel of whatever I was doing unimpeded, even if it made me look less like him, was better.
One day of filming, I was doing photos with extras for the walls of the Buckingham Palace set and I was talking to this guy and he said, 'So how long have you been in the game? Maybe we've worked together, but I don't recognise you?' And I said, Well, I don't always look like this. He said, 'What do you mean?' I said, No, this isn’t my face. Passing for someone who doesn't just have latex all over their face, that really was a very useful moment for me. I was trying to explain which parts of my face weren't mine to the extras and one of them said 'Oh, yeah, you've done something around your chin, haven't you?' I've done more than that love!
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