That was not the case with Melbourne." But he did think Lord M was a little too perfect at first. Often the job for me is to try to shine light on something dark or to try to find nuance in something that might seem kind of one-note on paper. I read it and thought, 'You know what? I am so lucky to still be considered for this kind of role.' When I got this script, I realized that I not only identified in some way with Melbourne, but I just really liked him, which for me is not always the case.
Suddenly on my doorstep arrives this other typecast that I used to battle with-the brooding Victorian lord. That character is very complex, he suddenly inhabits the darker realm and he's the ideal version of one stereotype, one typecast, which I decided to embrace and go as deep as I could. "When I received the script for Victoria, I was midway through the first season of The Man in the High Castle. "As a 49-year-old man.I'm just a piece of meat." If I'm offered a good part, I am going to bloody do it! But I am certainly not going to turn down any part on that account. It's certainly not the way I regard myself, by the way-I don't think of myself the way that they describe me. He aged very quickly toward the end, but about the time that Victoria met him, he was still quite an attractive man. Part of me is very lucky to be having that kind of attention at all! And when I looked up Melbourne, he was actually a very attractive man and women really loved him. "As a 49-year-old man, I am absolutely delighted and I have no qualms about it-excuse me, I'm just a piece of meat, thank you very much. And my career is panning out to be the one I kind of always wanted." He's very flattered by Twitter's attraction to Lord Melbourne-and loved playing the "brooding" Victorian. Now, I think people realize that what I've actually been doing all this time is acting, rather than just representing some 'type' that I am. In fact, coinciding with me not giving a f*ck how I'm seen, funnily enough, I think it's probably coming to pass that it's working out anyway. Really, the one thing you're butting against is what was once described as the 'DVD liner notes.' How the character is described superficially.īut I think it's suddenly coming to light now that I'm ending up being seen. The only thing that is limiting is bad writing. I never see characters I play in the same way, and often if I'm offered a character that is dark, if it's well written enough, I don't really have a problem with it. In the meantime, I certainly made the best of what I get. Eventually you get offered one that's good and you think, "Well, okay, I can work with this," whilst always keeping an eye open for anyone imaginative enough to send something different. Over the past few years, I was being offered three or four really shit scripts to play bad guys in a row. So I did it as an experiment and low and behold, I was trapped in a new typecast. I remember the first time I got offered to play a bad guy, it seemed like a wonderful opportunity to break away from the kind of brooding period drama characters that I always felt pigeonholed in. "When I was at drama school, my fear was that I would get stuck in the one thing that came naturally to me, which was comedy. Yes, he's been typecast as a "bad guy" throughout his 26-year career-but it's starting to work out in his favor. Below, Sewell lets us in on all the things we didn't know about him: from falling in love with "Lord M," to Twitter's reaction to his relationship with the young Victoria, and his thoughts on the parallels between The Man in the High Castle and the United States's current political climate. The two roles are complete opposites-which is exactly why Sewell was attracted to them: "These two opposing typecasts represent a pretty good statement of intent, or calling card," he says of his unorthodox career.
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This year, he brings this experience to two wildly different TV series: Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, playing Obergruppenführer John Smith, a Nazi in a world where the Axis powers won World War II, and Masterpiece PBS's Victoria as Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, close confidant and, the show suggests, first love. A mainstay of rom-coms ( A Knight's Tale, The Holiday), Hollywood epics ( The Legend of Zorro, Hercules, Gods of Egypt) and costume dramas ( Middlemarch, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Tristan & Isolde), Sewell's been playing mustache-twirling villains, legendary kings, literary heroes and the undead-in various iterations and even combinations-for more than 25 years. If you're not familiar with Rufus Sewell, you haven't been paying attention.
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