KING ARTHUR
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How interested were you to see the finished film? Any surprises for you?

Yeah, it’s pretty extraordinary. A film of this scale and size takes so long to put together that the filmmakers and actors can’t really see it in totality for some time. Seeing the finished film, I just loved the scale of this. I am very happy with the end result

You’re currently making SIN CITY with Robert Rodriguez. How has that experience been?

I was just in Texas finishing up on that. There’s lots of guns, lots of shooting, and it has Benicio Del Toro as Jackie Boy and Rosario Dawson as Gale. I play Dwight. It’s a pretty crazy world these characters are living in.

Any truth to the rumours of you playing James Bond someday?

It’s all complete media speculation and it’s been going on for a while now. I think it’s all due to a combination of me wearing a tuxedo in the CROUPIER and driving BMWs in the HIRE short film series I did for BMW. It’s really surprising to hear these rumours because Pierce Brosnan has done such a fantastic job as Bond. He’s reinvigorated that franchise and made the company a lot of money. As far as everyone knows, he’s going to do another one and I don’t understand why people just don’t come out and say, “He’s our man. He’s our Bond and he’s great.” I don’t know why they don’t back him like that. But I can tell you that they’ve never approached me.

What was it like to work with Julia Roberts in CLOSER?

That whole experience was a huge treat from start to finish. She was so good and so nice that it was a pleasure, an absolute pleasure. We did a lot together in the movie. If you know the play, then you know that there are some very tough, emotional scenes dealing with the breakdown of a relationship. And when you’re working with probably the biggest actress in the world you don’t know what’s going to come with that – you just don’t know. And I was just bowled over by how pleasant and easy she was to work with. I was incredibly comfortable and had a really great time.

As an actor, do you feel that your career is always gaining momentum? Is your sense that the roles you get just keep getting better and better?

I’ve always been in it for the long-term. It’s a lifelong thing for me. It’s a craft. It’s something I want to keep doing. And I’m hugely fortunate that I’ve been introduced to American audiences. I was never chasing the American film market, it just happened and suddenly the whole film world opened up and I was being asked to work with really great people, so I’m nothing but grateful. I was only unemployed for a couple of years in my hometown of Coventry before going to drama school. That was pretty tough. And I had a year or two of struggling a bit when I first left drama school, but then I landed the TV show CHANCER and that laid the whole foundation for my career.

Would you ever consider moving to Hollywood?

No, I live in London with my family and I’m very settled and very happy there. There’s no need to live in Hollywood. It’s not like every movie’s made there. It’s true that as an actor you go where the work is, but the work can be anywhere now.

What sorts of things do you like to do during your down time?

I’ve got about a 55-foot garden in London, not so big, but there’s always plenty to do. But when I’m at home my kids are the center of everything. It’s only fair because I usually have to travel when I’m working. They’re 7 and 4, so they’re just beginning to understand exactly what it is that I do for a living. It’s funny – the other day my daughter said to me, “How much money do you get for your movies?” I said, “Are they asking you this in school?” And she says, “Yeah. I told them a hundred pounds.” I said, “That’s about right.” I’m not sure she believed me.

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