When was james mcavoy born

We might have a Macbeth-off. I might just go, "My Macbeth's better than your Macbeth And your Macbeth: hmm, not so sure. My favourite kind of theatre is when I see the actors bleed and sweat blood and look like they're having heart attacks.

You've got to try and dash yourself without breaking yourself too much. I think I was about 25 or And that made me think, obviously this isn't Shakespeare's text but it's quite interesting having a young Macbeth because what you get is him and Lady Macbeth perceived to be throwing away their future, all through ambition.

And it makes their loss all the sadder when he delivers the 'Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow' speech, which is an expression of utter blackness and fatalism. I am a very shouty Macbeth. You know you've got the audience there and can do anything to make them feel uncomfortable. We do it on purpose. I love British cinema, but there's also a place for ostentatious, balls-out entertainment.

I quite like that dynamic, so I thought more about pushing it, about someone who does despicable things. I don't want to be all worthy about it, but I don't do red carpets, I don't do events and I don't accept freebies that much. Then going out and getting everybody's lunch. But I probably find it more difficult doing this Macbeth than any of the action movies I've ever done.

About the age of 15 or so I did consider it, and specifically not just any old priest, I considered being a missionary, 'cause I thought the whole great romantic idea of going off to far-flung regions, and helping people and trying to do all that was not only a good thing to do and romantic thing to do, but quite an adventurous thing to do. So I thought about that, but then I did start getting more luck with girls about that time, and that sort of put the kibosh on wedding myself to God.

Girls and adventure, and then acting kind of came along right at that moment as well, and so I am so, so thankful, especially since I turned my back on God, he has not punished me, thank you very much. I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if I dye my hair and I always say "Wow, no! I'm 'trans-ginger'. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie, but they have the right to try to do whatever they want to do.

That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do. And you know what? Life might kick you in the face, life might not let you do what you want to do, but they always taught me that, you know, "Go for it!

Yeah, you wanna do that? Go for it, son, you've gotta do it. I don't know what I thought it was gonna be. Honest to God, I did a movie and a couple of little TV shows when I was 16, didn't do anything again, got into drama school. Then I started working pretty much immediately after drama school. I wasn't really aware of what was going on, and I still hadn't really decided that I was an actor. I hadn't sort of said to myself "Right, this is the rest of my life," because you can't, because there is still a big massive part of me saying, "What if the work dries up tomorrow?

Then I'm not an actor any more," you know? I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. It's written for an English voice. But it is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

It's quite something to behold. He drinks a lot of coffee and he's about four feet taller when his hair's standing up. He's working on the Olympics Thursday and Friday and doing our film the rest of the time. But especially when you're playing a part as emotionally taxing and dexterous as Alma [Rattenbury] in that play.

And Anne-Marie was rarely off stage. But one of the strengths of her work is that when she goes through something, she goes through it and she doesn't hold back. Danny [ Danny Boyle ] said something to me the other day - we pay to see actors cry and go through stuff. Not just dramatic feats of action and derring-do but stuff that we wouldn't let ourselves do. We rarely cry or kiss our partner or devote the time and attention it takes to understand some of the things we're going through.

I think Anne-Marie's always done that, and she manages to do it without taking up too much emotional space. I don't know how she does it. The hours you work are incredible. But beyond that as well, Anne-Marie [wife Anne-Marie Duff ] and I both seem to get the kind of jobs where you put yourself through the wringer. I just got to float about saying lines that Professor X thought were slightly humorous.

But generally the work we get is quite emotionally demanding. I think I'd love Harry. He's a proper, man. He's like, "I'm never gonna be the king, it's cool. Can't I just act it, darling? I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

If you can't empathise and imagine what it is like to be somebody from somewhere else your world becomes very small and you can only do one thing. I came out being able to do a lot of the stuff that I've done. It is one of those parts, those plays, where the audience is willing you to dash yourself on the rocks, both artistically and actually a little bit.

It's all very controlled and we're trying to make sure nothing like that would ever happen of course, but we have to go so far to make people feel like anything could happen, make it seem like we are on the verge of losing control. That's not only a hard line to ride, it's also an exhausting one. But I'm loving it, absolutely loving it. It is not what you usually expect from me. It is not Trainspotting It is very Irvine Welsh but it has got its own voice.

At the beginning of my career I just set out to hopefully dupe people into giving me any kind of work, and that was a lot of character work. I was just happy to get anything and I'm lucky that I've not been pigeon-holed too much. I've started to plan things a bit more now, but until the last three or four years I never really planned anything.

What I do as an actor. I don't go, 'What's the truth of this scene, what should I be playing for the truth of this moment? I look at what I want the audience to feel, and I work back from that. I probably have the audience at the forefront of my mind for most movies, but particularly for Filth , because half the fun of this film is in pulling the audience from pillar to post in terms of how much they can take.

You never quite know where the line is in terms of humour, in terms of your emotional connection to the character, in terms of right or wrong, in terms of your allegiance to him, in terms of your empathy and sympathy, in terms of your repulsion to him. And just as he's becoming vulnerable and drawing you in, he forces a fifteen year-old girl to give him a blowjob.

So he's constantly moving the line in the sand. And you're constantly asking the audience to cross that line. I don't have a middle name. When actors are lucky enough to get work their worry starts to become: 'will I get anything as good as that again?

Maybe I need to deal with the fact that I will never get anything as interesting as that again. I don't even mean for the audience, I mean just for myself. Bruce came easier than any other part I've played, which is terrifying, because he is a demon, he is a proper son of Satan, although the truth he is just like any one of us who has gone horrendously bad. I actually loved him. I would love to do a skydive, because I like anything to do with heights. But that will have to wait for now.

But I do still use my motorbike. After the birth of [his son] Brendan I was all set to sell it, but my wife insisted it was a part of my personality.

However, I do drive on secure tracks - it's much safer than in normal traffic. You're partly leading the company, helping to set the tone and the example of the work ethic. You are colouring the production with every choice you make, and you've got to do that on purpose, and not be so precious and gentle with it.

Suddenly, I was around people who weren't afraid of being slightly different or called names, or singing a song, or playing in a band. I could suddenly stop being afraid to be different, or to aim for something, or to ask for something, or of being bullied.

I wouldn't have believed you. I didn't even think about acting until I was acting. My grandparents were always very strict with me, my mother, too. I know it may sound as if things were quite difficult, unstable or whatever, but in fact they weren't at all. I was very happy as a child, even though I was never let out of the door on my own until I was In a way I think that stopped me from getting into mischief, but I don't think I was ever that mischievous anyway. I take my job very seriously and if I start acting like an idiot off screen, I lose that respect.

It was a brave move in my neighbourhood. I've only done it once on the red carpet. Never again. I'm always on the hunt for something new, a character I have never played before.

Thanks to X-Men I have a certain amount of financial freedom. When I know I'll be making another blockbuster in a couple of years' time, I can afford to say yes to smaller projects with smaller budgets. I don't trust politicians at the moment. Why suddenly believe them now? Whether it turns out bad or good, you can make the best of independence. We could be [rich] for four years, but then we might not be.

That's what happens. Ask any Scotsman who wants independence whether they want to shed blood for it. Speaking of Split and Glass : McAvoy was definitely in the right place at the right time—and in the right frame of mind—when he first met director M.

Night Shyamalan. We were getting particularly drunk, and then I saw M. What do I call you? Inebriated or not, Shyamalan saw something he liked. One month later, he was on the set of Split in a role that Joaquin Phoenix was originally set to play, but dropped out of at the last minute.

Jackson, and was impressed by what he saw. When asked about the secret to his success, McAvoy doesn't mince words: "I got lucky," he told The Talks.

Through that one job I met people from England, I met people from America, and I met people from all over the place with challenging points of view and sympathetic points of view to mine.

And then I went to a youth theater for six months as well, and that expanded my mind massively. I got really lucky. Joe Macbeth. Show all 13 episodes. Dan Foster. Leto Atreides II. Ray Pritchard. Josh Malfen. Gowan Ross. Miller - Replacements James W. Martin Vosper. Gavin Donald. Local boy. Hide Show Producer 1 credit. Hide Show Soundtrack 2 credits.

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