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" Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with. "
Nice
Person
Nice Person
" As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough. "
Want
Yourself
You
" 'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it. "
Work
Time
Good
" Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at. "
Where
Really
Handsome
" Doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong - if I'm hungry or hot, I'm probably arguing with someone about something. Especially if that someone is rude. "
Matter
Hot
Hungry
" Every actor is like, 'I could direct!' "
Like
Could
Every
" Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father! "
Family
Time
Remember
" Fail again, fail better. "
Again
Better
Fail
" Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it. "
Home
Coffee
Look
" Has anybody seen 'The Notebook' and not cried? I don't know, I don't know if that's the case. It sort of hangs around for a while. "
Notebook
Case
Know
" I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.' "
Thought
Always
He
" I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through. "
See
Way
Like
" I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special. "
Special
People
Amazing
" I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, 'Star' and 'Wars,' said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance. "
Distance
Words
Two
" I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in. "
Involved
Go
" I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap. "
Day
Months
One Day
" I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie. "
See
Person
Now
" I find looking forward scary because you might die. "
Looking
Die
Find
" If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams. "
World
Person
Chemistry
" I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent. "
Him
Give
Know
" I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special. "
Got
Special
Part
" I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification! "
Hair
Got
Lucky
" I like cashew nuts. "
Nuts
Like
" I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too. "
Gritty
Too
Thrillers
" I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it. "
Like
Really
Life
" I'm a little bit drifty. I'm a little bit all over the place. "
Bit
Over
Little Bit
" I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make. "
You
Decision
Nature
" I'm certainly a young actor. I'm certainly those two things. Actually, I'm not even young anymore; I'm 29. So, I'm an actor. "
Things
Actor
Anymore
" I'm not built like a leading man. "
Like
Leading
Leading Man
" I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff. "
Going
Actor
Working
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