Bertie Carvel
Bertie Carvel
Robert Hugh "Bertie" Carvelis an Olivier Award-winning English actor, best known for his work in the realm of musical theatre...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth6 September 1977
amazing ask
The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
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I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.
might sound actors
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
acting mysterious process
Acting is a mysterious process.
people actors want
Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.
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Working with the children on 'Matilda' has been a joy. They don't do this professionally - their sense of discovery is instinctive, and the challenge for us adults is to keep that going in ourselves when we're doing it for the fiftieth or the hundredth time. To my delight and amazement, it hasn't gone stale - we discover it freshly every time.
alive amazed money spirit
I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I had always thought I wouldn't want to be here without a lot of money, but I was wrong about that.
case children fondness musicals people share
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.
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I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men's pond. It's an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.
journalist life might recording truth
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.
brilliant certain collective creates power reason
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.
came musical straight
I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.
boxed coping found imagination partly preserve quite solved
It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adults have. And the thing is adults haven't solved the world - they've just found a coping mechanism.