Zitat des Tages von Michael Socha:
If I wanted to do something on stage, I wanted it to be something I could really get into and feel.
I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.
I like to go for auditions. I enjoy that aspect of this job until I actually need a job, and then that becomes a problem. The worst thing is to build yourself up for a role and not get it, so now I'm just taking every day as it comes and trying not to rely on anything.
What I say about 'This Is England' is they're like my best friends back home. Normal, working-class, beautiful people who I'm creative with.
I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.
I was never on the side of the teachers at school. Even though I put all the work into getting the main role in the end-of-year musical when I was 11, they didn't give it me, even though they knew I should have had it. That sort of drove me into am dram and getting the main part in another production. And I did.
Sometimes I'm on a TV set, and I can't feel what I'm supposed to feel as that character because I've not worked my way up to that point. I think there's a bit more insecurity on a set - you've got to blag it, or you've got to do what you've been paid a lot of money to do in a very short space of time.
Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.
An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
When I first started acting, I never thought I'd be on TV or film. I always wanted to be on stage.
There's not many jobs that I would put my body on the line for.
I love my Nike Air Max trainers. They're big and bulky and spanking - I can't be doing with grubby trainers.