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
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.
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.
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.
war play interesting
As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.
letting-go reading play
The biggest challenge for me, as an actor, is to be informed, prepared and focused, at the same time. I had to just keep on working, prepping, reading and imagining, all the way through, but the biggest challenge is always to let go of all that and just be open to others. That's what we do, as actor. We play with each other and we stimulate each other, and we have to be prepared to be stimulated by the other. That's always my big challenge.
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!"
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.
thinking imagination littles
I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.
needs boards film
Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
thinking self today
I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.
games acting extensions
To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.
different actors film
As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.
australia film release
I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.