tomhardyvariations: MZS: You’re the first actor I’ve met who finds his character by maki
tomhardyvariations: MZS: You’re the first actor I’ve met who finds his character by making sketches.TH: One has to have a silhouette, you know? Say I’m playing Elton John. You know what he looks like. Playing Al Capone. You know what he looks like. But what about characters we’re making up from scratch, who you don’t know what they look like? You have to create a memorablesilhouette for them, too.When I was at school I was told, “Tom, when you play the prince or the king, I want to fucking see a king walk onstage before you even open your mouth. What does that look like?” Do you do it literally, with a costume, or through physicality? How do you immediately see the king? Crown? Robes? I have to find an identifier, a silhouette which immediately radiates something for me. Remember, you won’t necessarily know by their clothes that they’re the king. You can walk on in a disheveled homeless man’s outfit, but there’s something about them that radiates a nobility, something that makes you go, “This person’s a king.”Full interview in New York Magazine @nymag | January 9-22 2017 issuePhoto: Ryan Pfluger for New York MagazineInterview: Matt Zoller Seitz Styling: Nicole Schneider @nschneiderstyle ~ -- source link