![]() ![]() "It was really not a big deal I was thrilled he got the part."ħ. I hadn't seen him for a very long time but we'd remained friends," Winslet told The Irish Examiner at the time. Sewell played Jasper, the terrible ex-boyfriend who cheated on Winslet's character Iris. "It was completely fine. So when they appeared together in the 2006 romcom The Holiday, it was something of a reunion. He and Kate Winslet were briefly a couple. "She steered a couple of people towards me, one of whom was her agent, who then became my agent, and the other was Tim Pigott-Smith who gave me my first job, and I didn’t realize it was her doing for a long time.Ħ. "She came to our drama school for a chat and ended up directing us in a play," Sewell told The Independent. When Sewell was training at London’s Central School of Speech, Dench spotted his potential and gave him a leg up the career ladder. He got an early break from Dame Judi Dench. So I've been close lots of times, but I think it's been the making of me as an actor."ĥ. I was in Shakespeare in Love with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart. "I was in The Wings of the Dove with Uma Thurman, until that got canceled. "I was the lead in Interview with the Vampire, until Tom Cruise decided he was interested," Sewell told The Guardian. However, he missed out on some other high-profile parts when the projects changed direction. Sewell's film credits include A Knight's Tale opposite the late Heath Ledger, Judy with Renee Zellweger, and The Father alongside Anthony Hopkins. He has been in the running for some really huge movie roles. I’m still in touch with a couple of them.”Ĥ. "Some of them turned out all right, some didn’t. "I was doing these things with other kids whose parents were alive," Sewell added. However, he doesn't necessarily attribute this to the death of his father. ![]() I became a smoker, a drinker, and a rabble-rouser," Sewell told the Daily Express. "There was a period when I got into trouble for shoplifting. His dad was animation director Bill Sewell.īill, who died when Rufus was 10, was probably best known for directing the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" segment of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine movie. We were arty but my mum had to work in a pub."Ģ. So I was a little bit posh and a little bit free school dinners. "We lived in Twickenham, but in council-assisted accommodation next to a Londis. "My childhood was late-70s suburban," he told The Guardian. Sewell grew up in Twickenham, an affluent neighborhood of Southwest London, in a household where money was tight. He isn't quite as posh as you might think. Maisel, but here are 10 things you may not know about this charming screen stalwart.ġ. You probably know Sewell from his recent TV roles in Kaleidoscope, The Man in the High Castle, and The Marvelous Mrs. Prolific British actor Rufus Sewell has just been cast as Prince Andrew in Scoop, an upcoming movie about the bombshell interview that led to the Prince's withdrawal from public life. ![]()
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