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Jared Harris Biography

Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Lane Pryce in the television drama series Mad Men, David Robert Jones in the science fiction series Fringe, King George VI in the historical series The Crown, and Anderson Dawes on the science fiction series The Expanse. He has also had significant supporting roles in films such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Lincoln (2012), and Allied (2016).

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I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

Awful, England, Monks, School, Schools, Waiting

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

Manipulating, Mass, Murdering, Research, Villain

If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

Comfort, Important, Parts, Scare, Think, Thinking

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

Gardener, Graves, Looks, Playing

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

Evil, Fascinated, Mysterious, People, Rational

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

Acceptance, Fun, Having, Thinking

Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.

Actors, Different, Films, Lines, Right

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

Actually, Character, Knowledge, Real, Use, Writing

You get ideas from other people all the time.

Ideas, People, Time

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

Amazing, Greatest, Television, Written

When preparing for a role, a month is a luxury. Sometimes you've maybe got two weeks before you start on something. So you have to learn how to do it quickly. And the longer you have a role, that it lives in your imagination, the more you're going to be able to contribute when you get on set. Because it's really about your subconscious having time to sit with the part, so you're out doing something and then something occurs to you, you know?

Imagination, Lives, Occurs, Sometimes, Subconscious, Week

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one or a hundred or a thousand. It gives you a buzz of adrenaline, its exciting. The thing about that is that you want to make those nerves work for you in terms of an energy that's appropriate for the part and the performance, and not to distract the people who are watching so that they become nervous for you.

Energy, Giving, Hundred, Like, Make, People

I really wanted to get out of England.

England, Wanted

I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.

Change, Land, Ratios, Sort, Stuff

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Ifs, Know, Know Me, Knows, Start, Thought

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

Challenge, Challenges, Done, Filmmaking, Want

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

Done, I Regret, Involved, Movies, Regret

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

Auditioned, Casts, Character, Characters, Normal

One of the things that I was interested in about Moriarty was - he's so manipulative that he doesn't need to commit violence himself or kill people - he can get everyone to do what he needs to do. And sometimes they don't even know that they are being manipulated by him.

Kill, Moriarty, Needs, People, Violence

People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

Becomes, Character, Children, Lector, People, Rationale

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