Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is an English actor. Born in Berkshire, Hoult made his professional acting debut at the age of seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. He received recognition after landing the role of Marcus Brewer in About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He received further acclaim for his performance as Tony Stonem in Skins...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 December 1989
CityWokingham, England
I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks it's a bit harsh to eat cute things.
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.
Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.
I don't think parents always know where their children are going or what they are doing, what they are up to.
I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
Gabriel told me he'd bought the watch for his ex-girlfriend, but she didn't like it. She said that one day he'd find the right person to give it to, and he said that person was me,
Gabriel and I were always getting the giggles, but he was really scary when he was in character, ... drunk and screaming and shouting at me. At one point, he held a gun to my head and I could feel my heart racing. Then, afterwards, he'd just be fun Gabriel again, having a laugh.
Richard wanted me to play him aged 11 and 15, but as soon as he saw how tall I'd grown - I'm six foot two - he had a rethink and cast another boy as his younger self.
My experience in About a Boy probably did change me, but you change so much between 11 and 15 that's it's hard to know what had an effect on me directly,
I'll eat anything. I ate antelope once in Swaziland. I didn't know what it was until I'd started chewing it. Everything tastes like chicken though doesn't it? It wasn't bad.
When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you've done, but you feel as though you're being watched by Big Brother sometimes. Even if people have no idea who you are, you get the feeling you're being watched.
I don't mind my eyebrows. They add... something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows.