Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennesis an English actor. A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 December 1962
CityIpswich, England
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When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.
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We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift. The Kenyan background is like an extra character, an active pulse within the drama.
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We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift, ... The Kenyan background is like an extra character, an active pulse within the drama.
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We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift.
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It's the sort of part, not unlike Hamlet, maybe, where the actor brings their cloth to it.
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Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger into the wound on his head, laughing and delighting in the pain he's causing. He had to act as though he was in agony and terror without having many words to say. I was full of admiration for him.
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It was latent in him. He doesn't change character, ... It's not in his nature to be confrontational or create any tension. Good gardeners have to have a very quiet tenacity and insistence about them. This constancy, this determination, is in Justin, but it's not high octane. I like that, that people don't get it all in the beginning.
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It shows the kind of man he is. To allow any emotion would be unseemly for him,
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Yes, it's depressing when there's a lack of clean water and sanitation, ... But here are people living lives of vitality. I only felt welcomed.
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The patience, the tenacity of the gardener for me, it's the spirit of Tessa.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.