Ed Speleers

Professions :

Born :

April 7, 1988

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

love sports school

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

fans dark thinking

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special. by Ed Speleers

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

ugly special thinking

There's a lot of content out there that's for an older audience but what struck me was that people who like those grittier, slightly punchier shows could still watch this but with their children as well.

watches children people

I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.

heavy band thinking

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

suits actors jobs

I've got to give my brother a lot of credit because he's always introduced me to a lot of things and those films spiked an interest of, "Wow, this is an incredible world, how do you be a part of that?" That definitely helped me through my school years of doing theater.

brother years school

I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

branches littles world

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that... by Ed Speleers

When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character.

trying character thinking

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

growing-up use two

I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.

eight fiction thinking

People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.

different people interesting

A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.

auditions fit brain

What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

these-days important thinking

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

wish drama school

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.

phones waiting perfect

I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where peop... by Ed Speleers

I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."

gold want people

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as someth... by Ed Speleers

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

degrees roles want

I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.

careers acting years

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