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" All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors. "
Natural
Red
You
" But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor. "
Think
Running
Actor
" Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic. "
Film
Great
Good Times
" Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job. "
Fly
Now
Me
" Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants. "
Morning
Lost
End
" Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from? "
Beautiful
Me
Voice
" Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character. "
Interesting
Childhood
Character
" I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu. "
Flu
Sound
Test
" I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters. "
Proud
American
Feel
" I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging. "
Someone
Honor
You
" If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is. "
Woman
You
Amazing
" I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds. "
World
Get
Living
" I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set. "
Voice
Change
Day
" I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. "
Food
Time
Moment
" I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them? "
Little
Going
Men
" I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other. "
Know
Cinema
You
" I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film. "
Story
Film
Real
" I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. "
Reading
Book
Writing
" I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins. "
Same
Will
Always
" It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different. "
Be Different
Life
Strange
" It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer. "
Culture
Much
Mark
" It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow. "
Key
Shadow
Cinema
" It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.' "
Know
Going
Go
" It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade. "
Silhouette
Small
Face
" I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means. "
Never
People
Always
" I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?' "
Calm
Fan
Man
" I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe. "
Meet
Me
Man
" I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about. "
Work
Best
Lines
" I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There's no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things. "
Try
Philosophy
More
" Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.' "
Before
Even
Go
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