Boyd Holbrook
Boyd Holbrook
Robert Boyd Holbrook is an American actor and fashion model. He has appeared in films such as Milk, Out of the Furnace, Run All Night, A Walk Among the Tombstones and Gone Girl, and currently appears in the acclaimed Netflix series Narcos...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 September 1981
CityPrestonsburg, KY
CountryUnited States of America
art college cut father high life mom program run theater
There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
kids drawing program
I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.
carpenter lexington michael near recognized slowly theater work
I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
respect sean
Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
became itch knew means turned
When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
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I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
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I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out.
character play trying
I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don't want to play the same role twice.
extras
You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.
cop
I'm the furthest thing away from a cop.
blessing
For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
life-changing
To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.
inspiration character crash
I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.
style film aggressive
I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read.