Ed Speleers
Ed Speleers
Edward John "Ed" Speleers is an English actor and producer. He is best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film Eragon, as well as starring in Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning TV series Downton Abbey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 April 1988
thinking people looks
If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.
interesting people different
People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.
thinking eight too-much
I think I was shown Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas at seven or eight. That's really bad. I think I've turned out all right; it didn't harm me too much.
character thinking trying
When I'm putting the character together I try to find music that I think fits the character...
world branches littles
I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.
acting remember wanted
I've always loved [acting] and I've always wanted to [do it] from as far back as I can remember.
people ifs i-can
I can get quite down on myself because if people don't like what you're doing, it's hard.
people gold want
I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."
years careers acting
I really do consider myself quite fledgling in my acting career. I've only been doing it for 10 years and that's a short amount of time, really.
phones perfect waiting
I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up.
drama school wish
There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.
thinking important more-time
What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.
brain auditions fit
A lot of the time when you're doing your own work, it's all in your own head, which can be frustrating if you're prepping for something, especially an audition where it's all in your brain and you go in and no one else has seen it and you don't really know how it fits.
growing-up two use
Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.