I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.

Tom Weston-Jones

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I look cooking! Particularly pad thai. by Tom Weston-Jones

I look cooking! Particularly pad thai.

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You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.

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actors people thinking
I feel quite grounded, which is great. by Tom Weston-Jones

I feel quite grounded, which is great.

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grounded feels

I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.

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cutting jumping thinking
We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that i... by Tom Weston-Jones

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

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dark want way

You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there. It's very easy to recall and remember because it's written so well.

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mouths littles thinking

In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.

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coffee letting-go looks

I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can.

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mood i-can happy people
I know certain actors who have done very well. They are still dow... by Tom Weston-Jones

I know certain actors who have done very well. They are still down to earth.

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down know done earth

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

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doing just myself focus

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

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about go hollywood way

Jessica Rabbit! People wouldn't call her the most beautiful person in Hollywood, but I find her quirkiness and talent very attractive.

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person talent beautiful people

Making a series can sometimes feel like you're keeping a secret for months until it comes out; so when it finalizes in front of you, if you like the final product, it can be very exciting.

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feel like you sometimes

All in all, I'd like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film... it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really.

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diet story love people

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

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big nature photographer world

I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.

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myself you work people

The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.

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name go acting world

If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.

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walk my-life life book

It's something I'd find rather distracting in a historical piece, looking at characters that have obviously just gotten off their Ab Blaster. You see a piece set in the 1300s or the 1800s, and you've got characters who have perfect abs and are incredibly well-groomed, not a hair out of place, and it just doesn't make sense.

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looking place you hair

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

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sense just always realism