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
The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.
If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.
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.
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.