Richard Madden
Richard Madden
Richard Maddenis a Scottish stage, film, and television actor best known for portraying Robb Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones and Prince Kit in Disney's Cinderella...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 June 1986
CityElderslie, Scotland
diverse months pick
I always try to pick my parts to be as diverse as I can, and especially when you do 'Game of Thrones' for so many months of the year.
'Game of Thrones' couldn't be a movie. There's too much in it. You couldn't do it justice.
shakespeare
Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.
bounce camera good half stuff year
I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.
good people survive
Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.
believe love
I believe in love at first sight and hindsight.
To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.
classes naturally
Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'
worse
I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.
great
I was a nervous kid, not great socially.
school
I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.
age bit school suddenly
I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.
demands expecting life man onto parallels responsibility stark weight
Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.
good parts played romeo
I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'