Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnearis an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 February 1978
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There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.
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Both Othello and Iago seem a bit cracked. If you spend 15 years being responsible for death and destruction, that sense of suppressed horror is strong.
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When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.
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When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.
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I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.
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I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.
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Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.
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Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.
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When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
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Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.
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I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.
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I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.
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I'm glad to have shown myself able to do other things rather than people thinking, 'Oh, he'll just do the same as his dad.' Dad was a brilliant actor, but it just so happened he was five foot five and a half, fat and bald.
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If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.