There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision. But they’re the kind of villages in that area where there’s only one of everything—the boy who bullies you, the shopkeeper who gives you sweets, and the girl you pine for. Theo van Gogh. ‘I didn’t want him to feel like I was an emotional vampire,’ he says, ‘and I didn’t want to be Jeremy Paxman, but I did have to understand him as a person. Agent 47. They're always level and straight. ‘Yeah. Rupert Friend looks unseasonably well on the dismal August morning we meet in east London. I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing. But it’s not something I seek out. I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could! Rupert Friend is a director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become. ‘I don’t condemn it,’ he says. Friend grappled with suffocating boredom. I remember taking a little tour around there and you showed me the corner store where there used to be a girl who you pined for.RUPERT FRIEND: That wasn’t my village we were in; it was the next village along. He was in his second year of drama school when a casting director spotted him in a production of The casting director plucked Friend off the stage for his first film role, appearing opposite Johnny Depp in He is also, you may have gathered, Keira Knightley’s boyfriend, and as such a prime target for gossip columns, websites and paparazzi.

I like the gypsy lifestyle that filming affords. 1:00 PM PDT Was nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for his film, "Steve," that he wrote and directed. I had a tough time until I was a bit older and bigger.’ What was he picked on for? ‘Nothing’s as frightening as being held down and having cigarettes put out on you.’ Which happened to you? He considers me wryly when I ask if he understands people’s interest in his personal life. One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema—RF: Indiana Jones more than Harrison Ford himself was—and still is—quite a big man-crushEB: Now, you see, it’s interesting that you say that, because I know that you have a loathing for crowd opinions, but no one will deny that Marlon Brando was like a wild animal amongst the stage performers around in his time .

But that’s what I sort of want as an actor. Began a relationship with model/actress Another I know that he picked up a tan in the south of France (‘Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend buy a house in France’). He dislikes ‘films starring animated dogs’ but loves Terrence Malick: ‘I’m always intrigued by people who work infrequently, because I think it tends to be that they wait for the desire, rather than spewing them out.’ That must be harder to do as an actor, I suggest – doesn’t he feel he needs to keep himself out there? His thing was futile rage at his ineptitude and mine… mine was sort of plaintive hopelessness.’ He looks at me ironically and laughs. He found it very hard to talk about the more harrowing aspects of his life, so I had to try to skirt those while allowing him to say what he wanted to say.’ Lewis also introduced Friend to a south London gym to get him into shape, physically and psychologically, for the film’s scenes of illicit street fighting. I've never got a part in the same way twice. My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs. I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind. And she’s made one or two mistakes along the way, but she’s ultimately had the strength to continue being that empress, you know, for a fuck of a long time. There are two qualities that I’ve noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone’s opinion and still remember their vision. Fisherman's Friends is a 2019 British Rom-com directed by Chris Foggin from a screenplay by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth.. He has been married to Aimee Mullins since May 1, 2016. And then there’s the butcher who does his work by hand with a sword, which was always quite frightening. At Eternity's Gate (2018) Brian Tallerico. It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever. on Although he is a close listener and always weighs his answers deliberately, he claims to have a short attention span.