Jim Sturgess
Jim Sturgess
James Anthony "Jim" Sturgess is an English actor and singer-songwriter. His breakthrough role was appearing as Jude in the musical romance drama film Across the Universe. In 2008, he played the male lead role of Ben Campbell in 21. In 2009, he played Gavin Kossef in the crime drama Crossing Over, appearing with Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd. In 2010, Sturgess starred in the film, The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir. Sturgess co-starred in the German epic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth16 May 1978
albums three written
Ive probably written about three albums that no one will ever hear.
kids phoenix rivers
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.
independent mind records
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
two people stories
You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.
interesting political stories
It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.
thinking interesting guy
British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.
stars attitude character
[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around, some of the characters that he would have played. I mean, to me he was like a rock star, you know, he had it all: he had the looks, he had a great name, he had an attitude, an energy, an excitement about him. He was instinctively like a, he was a rebel, you know? He was kind of Bob Dylan to me, at times, and he had a lot to say. And I've never seen too many interviews by him, but the ones that I saw were pretty electric, pretty... he was switched on, definitely.
baby real believe
When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"
acting joining band
I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.
cities instinct persons
I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
ideas knowing people
I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.
Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!
I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.