Boyd Holbrook
Boyd Holbrook
Robert Boyd Holbrook is an American actor and fashion model. He has appeared in films such as Milk, Out of the Furnace, Run All Night, A Walk Among the Tombstones and Gone Girl, and currently appears in the acclaimed Netflix series Narcos...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 September 1981
CityPrestonsburg, KY
CountryUnited States of America
style film aggressive
I don't know if you've ever seen this film called Elite Squad, which, actually Wagner [Moura] is the one narrating that. José Padilha, one of creators of our show, that's where the style comes from. It has a heavy narrator. But I thought about it a lot. You [the viewers] have to work for the show, unless you're bilingual. It's a really aggressive type of filming, it's engaging, you've got to read.
cop
I'm the furthest thing away from a cop.
country mean people
Netflix is in every country except China and North Korea. Enough people have seen the show. I mean, I'm in Patagonia and people recognize the show [ Narcos].
directors want kind
There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.
house building architect
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
thinking people negativity
Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
life-changing
To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.
men trying prison
I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot our first feature in a maximum security prison where about 95% of the cast were incarcerated men. We're editing that and there's a doc going with it.
inspiration character crash
I really started hanging out with Steve [Murphy, the inspiration for Holbrook's character] a lot. I got educated that way. It was crash course. You learn as quickly as possible.
stranger my-favorite crushed
I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.
extras
You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.
blessing
For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
carpenter lexington michael near recognized slowly theater work
I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
kids drawing program
I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.