Aidan Turner
Aidan Turner
Aidan Turner is an Irish actor. He is best known for his roles as Kíli in the three-part fantasy film The Hobbit and John Mitchell in the supernatural drama series Being Human. Notable television roles include those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Desperate Romantics, Ruairí McGowan in The Clinic, and Ross Poldark in the 2015 BBC adaptation of The Poldark Novels by Winston Graham. He also portrayed Luke Garroway in the film adaptation of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 June 1983
CityClondalkin, Ireland
CountryIreland
There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.
Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.
You can't beat a love triangle.
It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.
You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.
When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.
I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.