My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
I took up drama and did so much extracurricular work, like the National Youth Theatre and Guildhall's Saturday school. Acting is where I felt most comfortable and how I wanted to express myself.
As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.
I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up in period costumes or anything like that. I'm very aural. When I'm working, I try to soak up the sounds of an era.
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.
I've been mostly influenced by experiences in the theater growing up.
I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.
Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.