Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleeson
Domhnall Gleesonis an Irish actor. He is best known for his portrayal of General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise, Caleb in Ex Machina and Tim Lake in About Time. He has acted on both stage and screen, earning a Tony Award nomination in 2006 for his role in the Broadway production The Lieutenant of Inishmore. He has performed in several shows at Dublin's Gate Theatre, including adaptations of American Buffalo...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 May 1983
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
I find looking forward scary because you might die.
I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.
Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.
People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.
There's this thing that you're not meant to have too many children - for global warming, it's bad. But I know lots of crappy people, and I would rather that good people have lots of kids and outnumber the baddies.
It's weird to be very good at something and not necessarily to want to do it.
Life is difficult for everyone, everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.
Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes.
I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'
I think the whole thing is: If it makes sense in your head, the audience will go along with it.