I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
From Ben Mendelsohn
'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.
I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.
For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.
I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
4 perspectives
3 perspectives
1 perspectives