![]() ![]() Although Macfadyen is six foot three and barrel-chested, he’s not physically intimidating in the least when out of character. “The thing for me is the juxtaposition between what it’s like to work with Matthew and then what you see onscreen,” Oyelowo says. Within a few years, Macfadyen was starring in the spy series MI-5 (known as Spooks in the U.K.), alongside other promising 20-somethings like Hawes and David Oyelowo. ![]() Daniel Radcliffe’s mother) cast him in the 1999 BBC drama Warriors, about U.N. ![]() He expected to carry on in the theater, but then Marcia Gresham (a.k.a. At 20, he went straight from RADA to the prestigious Cheek by Jowl theater troupe, starring in the company’s traveling production of the Jacobean tragedy Duchess of Malfi. “You can’t go and lay down in between takes.” “Also, if you’re a director, you need to know the answer to everybody’s questions,” he continues with a grin. I’m very happy being purely an actor.” His face lights up, as if reliving his youthful sense of relief. I don’t have that Laurence Olivier/Kenneth Branagh energy to create my own stuff. “And I remember thinking, That’ll be me!” Macfadyen followed Branagh’s path to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, only to realize “I’m not Kenneth Branagh. “When I was 14, Kenneth Branagh was making Henry V and directing and had his own company and was a sort of whirlwind,” he says. ![]()
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