"When I received the script for Victoria, I was midway through the first season of The Man in the High Castle. "As a 49-year-old man.I'm just a piece of meat." If I'm offered a good part, I am going to bloody do it! But I am certainly not going to turn down any part on that account. It's certainly not the way I regard myself, by the way-I don't think of myself the way that they describe me. He aged very quickly toward the end, but about the time that Victoria met him, he was still quite an attractive man.
Part of me is very lucky to be having that kind of attention at all! And when I looked up Melbourne, he was actually a very attractive man and women really loved him. "As a 49-year-old man, I am absolutely delighted and I have no qualms about it-excuse me, I'm just a piece of meat, thank you very much. And my career is panning out to be the one I kind of always wanted." He's very flattered by Twitter's attraction to Lord Melbourne-and loved playing the "brooding" Victorian. Now, I think people realize that what I've actually been doing all this time is acting, rather than just representing some 'type' that I am.
In fact, coinciding with me not giving a f*ck how I'm seen, funnily enough, I think it's probably coming to pass that it's working out anyway. Really, the one thing you're butting against is what was once described as the 'DVD liner notes.' How the character is described superficially.īut I think it's suddenly coming to light now that I'm ending up being seen. The only thing that is limiting is bad writing. I never see characters I play in the same way, and often if I'm offered a character that is dark, if it's well written enough, I don't really have a problem with it. In the meantime, I certainly made the best of what I get. Eventually you get offered one that's good and you think, "Well, okay, I can work with this," whilst always keeping an eye open for anyone imaginative enough to send something different. Over the past few years, I was being offered three or four really shit scripts to play bad guys in a row. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Below, Sewell lets us in on all the things we didn't know about him: from falling in love with "Lord M," to Twitter's reaction to his relationship with the young Victoria, and his thoughts on the parallels between The Man in the High Castle and the United States's current political climate. The two roles are complete opposites-which is exactly why Sewell was attracted to them: "These two opposing typecasts represent a pretty good statement of intent, or calling card," he says of his unorthodox career.
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This year, he brings this experience to two wildly different TV series: Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, playing Obergruppenführer John Smith, a Nazi in a world where the Axis powers won World War II, and Masterpiece PBS's Victoria as Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister, close confidant and, the show suggests, first love. A mainstay of rom-coms ( A Knight's Tale, The Holiday), Hollywood epics ( The Legend of Zorro, Hercules, Gods of Egypt) and costume dramas ( Middlemarch, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Tristan & Isolde), Sewell's been playing mustache-twirling villains, legendary kings, literary heroes and the undead-in various iterations and even combinations-for more than 25 years. In an exclusive interview with Metro in June 2012, during the promotions of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, he revealed he was utterly bored with playing a bad guy in movies and TV shows.If you're not familiar with Rufus Sewell, you haven't been paying attention. But, in reality, he was getting bored with playing villainous roles. Rufus Sewell as John Smith in The Man in the High Castle (Photo: Deadline) Sewell Was Bored with His Villainous RolesĪfter gaining positive reviews from the fans, many people thought Sewell enjoyed playing the antagonist. Moreover, in The Man in the High Castle, he appeared as a cruel SS officer named John Smith.
Similarly, the actor’s appeared as Lincoln’s nemesis Adam, a Machiavellian bloodthirsty vampire who aims to build his vampire nation, in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. In A Knight’s Tale, the Twickenham, Middlesex native played Count Adhemar, a wealthy knight who has a lot of experience on the battlefield. Among all those villainous roles, his portrayal in A Knight’s Tale, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and The Man in the High Castle, provided him with a healthy amount of limelight.
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