James Purefoy
James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoyis an English actor, producer and director. He is best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome, former college professor-turned-serial-killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following and Solomon Kane in the feature film Solomon Kane...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 June 1964
sexy ugly-things looks
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.
good turning
British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'
dieting
Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.
few tv
There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.
love
I love all things Apple and have done since 1996.
When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
home
Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.
famous
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
affairs business finding hotels people perverse studios
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
travel work
I have to travel a lot for work.
people playing
I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
I have no problem with television as a genre.