English - Actor | October 17, 1966 -
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
Mark Gatiss
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I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
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I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
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For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.
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I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun.
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It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.
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Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
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Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.
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I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.
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Even when I was a child, I always wanted to be older. I realised just in time that it's a mistake and to enjoy my youth while I had it.
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They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.
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The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
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