Will Kemp
Will Kemp
William Kemp may refer to:...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 June 1977
ideas acting tools
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
people tempted
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
lying reading may
Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
beautiful wife mountain
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.
dad thinking class
I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
art rocks glam-rock
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
writing next lines
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
struggle giving people
Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.
dad thinking dying
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
successful years musical
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
band hell stressful
I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
love-is priorities support
Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.
art would-be shame
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
stars dad book
We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.