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Hi Danny, the press release for your new film, Vendetta, calls it "a career best" for you. Is it a "career best" (1)?
It is. I felt like I had a lot to prove, I'd had so many negative reactions to my recent films and people constantly mocking me. I was just like: "**** you – I'm an actor. I'm a serious actor."
Do you feel that your personal life overshadowed your acting?
For some people, yeah. It's like, OK, you need to re-evaluate things, maybe you've become more of a personality, a celebrity than being an actor. There are some actors out there that are brilliant at just being the actor and not giving the interview, mainly because they're boring as **** and they've got absolutely nothing to talk about. But if there's one thing I regret about my career it's that I didn't let my acting do the talking (2).
Harold Pinter mentored you as a young actor. What do you remember about him?
I miss him, you know, he was a good influence on me. He was the only person who I feared but loved. He had faith in me, he suffered all my **** because he knew I was a talented actor. He was a ****ing tyrant, too, you know, but he could get away with it because he was so enchanting. He was a poet.
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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013...misogyny-drugs
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