You just worry that your time is up. It’s not that people suddenly go, ‘Oh, actually they’re not very good any more,’ but sometimes, well, your time is up. There are a lot of actors out there who just disappear.
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It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.
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I did a bit of modeling before I took up acting, and I was up for this big campaign – I can’t remember which designer – and all these execs were looking at my portfolio. Then one said: ‘We’d like to use you, but can you come back next year when you’ve lost this.’ And he tapped the underside of his chin.
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A teacher, Jan Piggott, told me, ‘They’re auditioning for ‘The Tempest.’ If I don’t see you there, I’ll be very disappointed.’ I went along and got the part, and suddenly all these teachers, all these girls, everybody was just wanting to be my friend, and being lovely to me and being nice to me, and I thought: This is it. This is what I want to do.
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Birth: | 22nd September, 1970 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Actor |
Rupert William Penry Jones is an English actor, known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks, as Clive Reader QC in BBC legal drama Silk and for various other notable roles in the British television industry.
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