But Considine accepts that he hasn’t helped himself with some dyspeptic interviews he has given. He has often been defined by his screen persona: his unsettlingly convincing depiction of unhinged characters his famed refusal to audition for any director because it was, he once said, “disrespectful and impersonal”. He laughs a lot, actually, during the hour we spend together, in contrast to his rather forbidding reputation. They just come up and say the three good things that I’ve done or whatever.”Ĭonsidine grins as he explains the hole he found himself in. I’m a lucky guy because people haven’t seen the rubbish I’ve done. “I was terrible in some films,” he continues. Meanwhile, as a writer-director, Considine has made one short film, Dog Altogether, and one feature, Tyrannosaur – and both won Baftas.
Prime-time renown has come from a recurring part as the title character in the ITV hit drama The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
Dead Man’s Shoes, the eviscerating 2004 revenge drama that he co-wrote, may still be his calling card, but he long ago proved his versatility with comic performances in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, and, respectively, understated and then wildly overstated roles in Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and The Double. These insecurities will be surprising to nearly everyone who has seen the 40-year-old Considine’s work.
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About five years ago, Paddy Considine started to ask himself a question: why wasn’t he a very good actor? This enquiry led to a series of related concerns: why was he decent in some films, such as Dead Man’s Shoes, but so appalling in others? Why was he able to vividly portray an angry confrontation, but incapable, for example, of convincingly picking up a phone and calling a taxi?
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