Ben Whishaw and Hugh Grant are facing off yet again.
Theres something a bit squashed about his emotional life, and that can be a very typical English thing.
People struggle to say what they really mean here, particularly in that class and in that time.
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That quality seems quite English to me.
Norman Scott is still alive.
Did you have the chance to speak with him at all?Yeah.
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It was quite brief, but it felt important.
Its quite tricky that balance.
We tried our best to serve Norman and to serve the story as interpreted by Russell.
I really loved that quality.
I find that really exciting as a performer.
Theres a sort of constant ambivalence aboutIs this something I can laugh at?
In a way, I tried to copy some of the expressions and some of the poses he struck.
It was much [more that] than following my own instinct.
Im definitely not a model.
I actually dont really like having my photograph taken very much.
I do like fashion, although I really have to force myself to go out and buy clothes.
So I do appreciate clothes, but Im a bad buyer of them.
Its lots of shades in between and thats a valuable thing to put into the world.
Were living in better days.
Theres always a fragility about these things because if they can change one way, they can change another.
Whats your working relationship like with Hugh Grant?
Then it has this enormous tail that trails on for decades afterwards that neither man can let go of.
We didnt discuss anything.
We didnt have any rehearsal.
We did one read through with the whole cast.
We just did it.
Partly thats because Hugh and I have known each other since we didCloud Atlasseveral years ago.
I also put a lot of that down to the precision and brilliance of Russells writing.
Its just a pleasure to do it.
The case against one of the men hired to kill Norman is possiblybeing re-openedas of a couple weeks ago.
I dont even know legally if its possible for it to go anywhere.
I think its all quite complicated.
Im not really sure what the course of events would be.
