Harry Lloyd
Harry Lloyd
Harry Charles Salusbury Lloydis an English actor. He is known for his roles as Will Scarlet in the 2006 BBC drama Robin Hood, Jeremy Baines in the 2007 Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", and Viserys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth17 November 1983
CityLondon, England
bits directors realized writers
The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.
based
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
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My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.
sure ten time
If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.
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There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.
If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.
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I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.
job life
I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.
dramas good period
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
believe front human thoughts
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
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It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
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Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena - Warrior Princess. If you don't do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.
relationship useful
The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.