Sep 20, 2020
The actor and singer on his love of gardening, why audiences need to feel uncomfortable, and his new film, Beast
If you’re playing quite a dark role, is it difficult getting out of character at the end of the day?
“I’ve just come back from doing Hangmen, a Martin McDonagh play in New York, and that character is definitely some sort of psychopath. Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it’s not there – you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way. It’s interesting coming back to neutral and remembering who you are and what your moral standing point is in the world. But I find I miss characters as I leave them behind.”