English - Actor | November 14, 1981 -
I get letters and messages on Twitter saying I've become a bit of a role model, which is wonderful.
Russell Tovey
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Brits are cool at the moment. We've taken over the world, what with 'Game of Thrones', 'Downton Abbey', One Direction... to be British is to be fashionable.
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I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.
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Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it's not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles.
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For me to play gay, it has to be something special because it might actually be more of a risk. So I'm waiting for that role - I want it to be something that moves things forward.
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I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.
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I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating.
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My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.
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Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now...' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known.
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When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.
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I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.
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'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.
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