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
sam scene since watched work
I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'
amongst deal kid known peers school taught tv
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them. It's not easy being known as 'the kid from the TV show.' Not in school it's not.
characters delicate people portray worship
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.
characters open
We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.
No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'
ball dire rather stick wolf
I think I'd much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.
I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.
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.
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.
To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.
When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.