Scottish actor Peter Mullan, whose credits include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Westworld, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, passed through Series Mania in Lille this week, where he participated in what turned out to be one of the festival’s most raucous masterclass sessions.
Mullan appeared alongside French journalist Charlotte Blum, who chaired the session and quizzed the Scotsman on his decades-long career and his philosophy of acting. “The thing with acting like any form of play is that it’s fun when you are playing,” Mullan said. “A footballer can relive the moment of scoring the goal, but it’s not as much fun as scoring the goal.
And it’s the same with acting. You can relive it if you want. You can sit and watch yourself all day long if you want.” Pulling from his experience working with actors with differing approaches to the craft, he said: “Kevin Spacey would watch himself all day long.
He never fucking stops. The man is an asshole.” Spacey and Mullan worked together on the 2000 crime caper Ordinary Decent Criminal, also starring Colin Farrell and Christoph Waltz.
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