Jared Harris
Jared Harris
Jared Francis Harrisis an English actor, best known for his roles as Lane Pryce on the AMC drama series Mad Men and David Robert Jones on the Fox science-fiction series Fringe. He has also appeared in films like Igby Goes Down, The Rachel Papers, Lost in Space, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, Happiness, Mr. Deeds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Lincoln...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 August 1961
mean attachment scene
Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.
drama fall school
When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why it happens, why you are being asked to say what you're saying, and what the words mean. But then when you start working, most of the stuff would just fall apart if you subject it to that kind of scrutiny.
challenges done want
I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.
real writing character
If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.
regret done i-regret
Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.
england wanted
I really wanted to get out of England.
television written
Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.
thinking work-out auditions
I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'
fun acceptance thinking
I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.
character normal casts
I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.
different actors lines
Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.
dying done brilliant
I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!
people needs violence
One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.
school waiting awful
I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.