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Article: EDWARD THE CONFESSOR; From toffs to a cold assassin, EDWARD FOX has cornered the market in playing emotionally distant Englishmen. But, REBECCA HARDY discovers, beneath his formal exterior lurks a passionate man who was hospitalised for wanting to kill his first wife, and who only recently married his partner of 30 years.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2005
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Byline: REBECCA HARDY
Edward Fox has little time for the likes of some young British actors.
'Absolutely undignified,' he snorts, 'This continual "I", "I", "I", is not really to do with acting.
Actors need to get out of the spotlight and get on with learning the job.'
Edward is adamant about this. He's sick of luvvie actors whose private dramas are played out in public.
'You have to have some ego to get on the stage at all,' he concedes. 'But it's for the use of something - not for the use of yourself - it's for the use of the job you do.' Edward is not usually an ill-tempered man, but this new breed of celebrity infuriates ...