Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weavingis an Australian-British film and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogyand Elrond in The Lord of the Ringsand The Hobbitfilm trilogies, as well as the title role of V in V for Vendetta...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 April 1960
CityIbadan, Nigeria
CountryNigeria
people streets recognizing
People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.
play people weaving
I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.
blow water people
It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.
real people pleasure
It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.
mean people mind
When you're battling against the minds of the studios and the money that can go into promoting larger budget films, it's very hard for a very small-budget Australian film to get a look in. You can get critically acclaimed and go to various film festivals around the world, but that doesn't necessarily mean the majority of people are going to hear about it.
believe people understanding
I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.
mean play people
A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare because the language is so hard," but it is. When you read it on the page, you go, "What?! What does that mean?!" If you go to a Shakespeare play and you've never been, you sit there and go, "I'm an idiot! I don't get it!"
people film communicate
There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.
call dressing freely fully imaginary initially kid total
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
country dreamed hideous romantic
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
character play rooms
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.
thinking imagination littles
I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.
character thinking play
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
needs boards film
Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.