Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role in Ken Loach's My Name Is Joe, for which he won Best Actor Award at 1998 Cannes Film Festival. He is also winner of the World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances at 2011 Sundance Film Festival for his work on Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur. Mullan appeared as supporting or guest actor in numerous cult movies, including Ken Loach's Riff-Raff, Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Danny Boyle's...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 November 1959
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
I did 'Deathly Hallows' so my kids could get on the 'Harry Potter' set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn't have been nicer to them so I'm a hero right now.
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.
I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'