James Frain
James Frain
James Dominic Frainis an English stage and screen actor. His best known roles include those of Thomas Cromwell in the TV series The Tudors, vampire Franklin Mott in season three of the HBO drama True Blood, as Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, in the BBC drama serial The White Queen, as Ferdinand in Orphan Blackand as Theo Galavan/Azrael in Season 2 of Gotham...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth14 March 1968
guy played
Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
construct graphic maybe parts record
I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.
great shows
I've got this thing where I think great shows have great credit sequences. I don't know why that is, exactly.
adapted
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
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Now it's all about the word of mouth, and watching a series on Netflix. That's the way people actually consume this stuff now, instead of waiting for a DVD release you're not really sure you want to buy. And I think it's fantastic, because then I can watch the shows that I missed, over a weekend. I love doing that.
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I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over seven years.
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Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.
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'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
fun thinking guy
With my guy, every now and then, he puts on a mask and does that, but he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he's fun to hang around with. I think that's unusual, to that extent.
differences ease cameras
Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with as much ease. It was more like, when you've seen photos of cameras from the 1930s being moved around with these huge cranes. So there was something quite sort of old-fashioned about it almost.
overcoming impossible projects
Every project has its things to be overcome, but I didn't find that there was anything particularly impossible about what we were doing - it was all quite exciting.
years bridges guy
I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't know who I was going to get, in the sense that I didn't know what he was going to be like. And so I was pleasantly surprised that he is this kind of laid-back guy.
theater imagining-things cgi
Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.
color trying shapes
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.