Toby Jones
Toby Jones
Toby Edward Heslewood Jones is an English actor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 September 1966
CityLondon, England
improvise stanley taxing
Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.
blessed people harry-potter
We're blessed with, as we were on Harry Potter, lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.
cities london culture
It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.
different strange happens
It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.
trying world plenty
I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
voice shapes hard
I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.
independent imagination directors
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
keys shadow fans
It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.
drinking moving thinking
There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.
couple coffee men
Best ever was filming in Barcelona last year, and I had a couple of scenes with De Niro. He's a very shy man. Speaks so quietly that people tend to bend down and adopt the same tone, almost the same voice, whenever they talk to him - watching, you'd think someone's offering to carry out a hit for him when they're just offering him a cup of coffee.
keys elements silhouettes
One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.
drama character want
You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.
though
It's one of those jobs where you go, 'Oh no, I've got to play Alfred Hitchcock. I have to play him even though I know what this is going to involve.'