He is a devoted sounding board for his friend Ruby Wax, and is blown away by the talents of Emma Thompson, with whom he appeared in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually. About a Boy is, he observes, “the kind of depressing English film where single mothers and Amnesty workers are ugly people in oversized sweaters”.īut we also get a sense of a man who was loyal and generous. It is particularly amusing to read him railing against critics, while himself displaying all the skills required for the job. Sean Mathias, who directed him and Helen Mirren in Anthony and Cleopatra, is “a big pile of Kleenex” the playwright David Hare is “more self-involved than any actor I have ever met”. There are, naturally, crisp descriptions of colleagues. “Stories of great notices are not helping lift my leaden heart,” he writes. After a screening of Galaxy Quest, the 1999 sci-fi spoof which was an unexpected smash, all he can think about are the scenes he was in that have been cut. He second-guesses everything, fretting over the roles he has turned down and the ones he has accepted, and quietly seethes at the perceived failures of script writers, costume designers, directors and fellow actors. The tone is sometimes gossipy and amusing but at other times anxious and irritable.
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