Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Hoult
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult is an English actor. Born in Berkshire, Hoult made his professional acting debut at the age of seven in the 1996 film Intimate Relations. He received recognition after landing the role of Marcus Brewer in About a Boy, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. He received further acclaim for his performance as Tony Stonem in Skins...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 December 1989
CityWokingham, England
I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.
I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.
I'd just like to carry on acting.
If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.
Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.
I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.
I don't like watching myself. I get embarrassed.
I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.
I can be a bit grumpy. Im full of angst, and hormones.
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.
Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.