English - Actor | February 6, 1951 -
When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
Kevin Whately
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While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.
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When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.
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I initially thought 'Lewis' was a terrible idea. The character had very much been Morse's work donkey and sounding board. But I was persuaded to do it, thinking if it was a flop, at least ITV would stop asking me. But the pilot took off, so we got back on this moving train, and we've never looked back.
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Mum had regular mental tests with her specialist, but because of her academic background, she became brilliant at manipulating them.
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Let's just say I've never relied on my looks to make a living.
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You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
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Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.
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You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.
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When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping.
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In TV, you just have to decide the night before exactly how you're going to say it and stick with that. You can't kick it around; you haven't got time.
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
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