Irish - Actor | April 24, 1968 -
For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.
Aidan Gillen
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It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.
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It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.
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I'd quite like to do a musical. I'd probably have to develop that myself.
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There was a year between school and getting going as an actor when I basically just watched films. Video shops were the new thing, and there was a good one round the corner and me and my brother just watched everything, from the horror to the European art-house.
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'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.
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I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.
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I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.
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It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.
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I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.
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I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.
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I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.
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