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Ed Speleers

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Ed Speleers is a British actor born on April 7, 1988, in London. He gained widespread recognition for his role as Tom Riddle (young Sirius Black) in the film 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'. Since then, he has taken on significant roles in various film and television projects, including the TV series 'Skins' and 'Doctor Who'.

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“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.”

Thinking Feels Bigs Film Dark Fans British Brilliant Cinema

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

Thinking Special Ugly

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“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.”

Thinking Feels Band Heavy Chilled

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“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.”

Ifs Jobs Actors Fine Becoming Fame Suits

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“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.”

People Wells Children Stills Shows Watches Audience

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“If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out to a broad audience, that's an interesting thing.”

Ifs Important Shows Able Strong Interesting Moral Audience Theme Broads Interesting Things

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“It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.”

Firsts Young Growing Up Growing Screens

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

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“A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.”

Humans Important Faces Actors Challenges Boundaries

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“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.”

Want Roles Degrees Transformation Extremes Fascinated

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“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.”

Years Acting Careers Amount Fledglings

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“If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Roles Exciting Look Up

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

Turns Waiting Perfect Roles Sitting Phones Rings Sitting Around Sitting Around Waiting

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“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.”

School Young Actors Wish Gone Drama England Coming Out Young Actors

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

Thinking Important Spending Coaches These Days More Time

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Brain Know How Fit Working It Auditions Frustrating

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

People Different Interesting Different Peoples Interesting Things

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“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.”

Thinking Fiction Too Much Seven Eight Harm Pulp

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“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.”

Two Use Bigs Growing Up Growing Big Things Tarantino Scorsese

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

Thinking Trying Character Together Fit

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“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.”

World Littles Might Bits Little Bit England Jazz Singers Branches Als Coming Out Johnson

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“From a stupidly young age I was always involved in anything, whether it be a nativity play or little kids plays. Wherever it was, I was involved and I think it was because more than anything, I wanted to be the center of attention.”

Thinking Littles Play Kids Age Wanted Young Attention Involved Little Kid Young Age Nativity Center Of Attention

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“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.”

World Giving Years School Film Interest Brother Theater Incredibles Credit My Brother Wow School Years

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“I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.”

I Can Wanted Remember Acting

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“I can get quite down on myself because if people don't like what you're doing, it's hard.”

People Ifs I Can Hard

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

People Want Gold

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“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 Play Age School Sports Acting Study Stage Productions Playing Sports

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Born: April 7, 1988
Known for: Actor
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