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Rupert Friend
English
Actor
Born:
Oct 1
,
1981
About
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.
Rupert Friend
Work
People
World
Events
Whatever
Press
Only
Go
Endorse
Meant
Publicist
Things
This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.
Rupert Friend
Single
Every
Too
Part
Industry
Understand
Different
I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back.
Rupert Friend
Good
Thought
Never
Idea
Act
Good Idea
I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.
Rupert Friend
Attention Span
Bored
Attention
Always
Quickly
Get
Short
Short Attention Span
Span
That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.
Rupert Friend
Me
Comforting
Opposite
Routine
Thing
I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.
Rupert Friend
Opportunity
Mind
Own
Believe
Allowing
Make
Make Up
Audience
Up
If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.
Rupert Friend
Minute
About
Make
Done
Then
Film
Now
I went to a drama club when I was little, but it was more of an excuse to flirt with girls than anything else. We never put on plays.
Rupert Friend
Girl
Club
Drama
Else
More
Never
Put
Excuse
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Little
Flirt
Plays
I don't love plays. I don't love doing the same thing, every night, for 100 nights in a row.
Rupert Friend
Love
Same Thing
Every
Nights
Doing
Same
Thing
Row
Every Night
Night
Plays
I guess the reason I wanted to be an actor was that it felt like it would offer something different all the time.
Rupert Friend
Time
Guess
Would
Something
Like
Felt
Offer
Different
Wanted
Reason
Actor
'We' is a difficult word for me. I don't know if I feel 'we' about anything.
Rupert Friend
Me
Word
Difficult
About
Feel
Know
Anything
It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.
Rupert Friend
You
Imagination
Our
Paper
Pen
About
Oneself
Bodies
Novelist
Thing
Imaginative
I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.
Rupert Friend
You
Beginning
Project
Drawn
Bored
Pretty
Absolutely
Going
Ashamed
Thing
I'm studying Krav Maga, which is an Israeli form of self defense. It's very deadly and without rules.
Rupert Friend
Self-Defense
Defense
Rules
Self
Studying
Deadly
Without
Israeli
Very
Form
Which
I don't do glamorous things.
Rupert Friend
Glamorous
Things
I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.
Rupert Friend
Thought
Down
Keep Moving
Settling
About
Never
Like
Anywhere
Moving
Really
Keep
Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same person? Or people like Johnny Depp, who can play Jack Sparrow and Edward Scissorhands. I am so interested in the transformation, in not knowing anything about them and watching somebody create a character. I'm not really interested in personalities.
Rupert Friend
Character
People
Somebody
Transformation
Not Knowing
Say
Seeing
About
Johnny
Johnny Depp
Foot
Like
Knowing
How
Am
Edward
Left
Jack
Person
Same
Anything
Depp
Interested
Personalities
Them
Create
Really
Sparrow
Who
Play
Last
Watching
Even if it's a bit blunt, I really appreciate somebody being straight with you.
Rupert Friend
You
Somebody
Bit
Being
Blunt
Straight
Really
Even
Appreciate
I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.
Rupert Friend
War
Experience
Presume
Kind
Would
Impart
Horrors
Never
Understand
Been
Fully
I was asked by this British band called Kairos 4Tet to write lyrics for them. And I wrote lyrics for them. The album is called 'Everything We Hold,' and you can hear my lyrics.
Rupert Friend
You
Band
Lyrics
Everything
Write
Wrote
Hear
Hold
Them
Asked
Album
British
The more I'm committed to finding a way to genuinely be immersed in someone else's life, the more enjoyment there is in it. I've never been interested in smoke and mirrors and cutting corners. I'd rather just do it for real.
Rupert Friend
Life
Just Do It
Corners
Else
Way
Immersed
Finding
Someone
Mirrors
Rather
More
Never
Smoke
Smoke And Mirrors
Genuinely
Real
Been
Committed
Just
Interested
Cutting
Enjoyment
Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.
Rupert Friend
Love
People
Lonely
Think
Cold
Desperately
Out
Eating
Fish
Tin
Tuna
Lake
While
Across
Porch
Two
Two People
We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems.
Rupert Friend
Health
Problems
Hair
Teeth
Television
Television Shows
Characters
Minor
About
Having
Go
Shiny
Western
Full
Who
Shows
Lives
I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.
Rupert Friend
You
Practice
Big
Think
Imagination
Tool
Some
Some Things
Strongest
Big Fan
Just
Fan
Things
Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.
Rupert Friend
Acceptance
People
Achieve
First
Think
Everybody
Appropriate
Inside
Tend
Feel
Most
Order
Want
Gain
Them
Many
Present
I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.
Rupert Friend
Sad
Me
Quality
Solitary
Struck
Individual
He
Very
Mournful
Quite
Apart
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