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His response to a question about whether he watched Inspector Morse when it first aired is that he did but that there were “only four television programmes” on TV in those days. When I ask about his latest project, a play written in 1912 by Githa Sowerby, he says: “It’s a pro-feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-industrialisation kind of play,” before raising an eyebrow and deadpanning: “And not as dry as that sounds.” The Thick Of It It is refreshing, then, to find that, like many of those roles, he is also very funny. He has become, in the process, one of the UK’s most distinguished actors. He has been nominated four times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning twice, once for Captain Terri Dennis in a revival of Privates on Parade and once for Falstaff in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2.
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Most notably, Allam played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables, appeared as the merchant-prince Illyrio Mopatis in the HBO series Game of Thrones and starred as Peter Mannion MP in The Thick of It. “I always worry about being typecast, which is why I try to do so many different things.” British playwright Michael Frayn (L) poses with his special award with category presenter Roger Allam during the Lawrence Olivier Awards for theatre at the Royal Opera House in London on April 28, 2013. “One of the things that appealed to me about acting was seeing people on stage playing different roles,” he says. Over the years, Allam has taken on a broad variety of roles, never stopping for long enough to be typecast. “Being in the same room as the performance is just tremendously exciting.” “What’s important is that whatever price structure you have, in whatever theatre, it can include people who have very little money.”Īlthough he is supportive of live theatre being shown in cinemas as a means of inclusivity, he is unsure that it can really replicate the experience of being part of an audience. “In a sense, it doesn’t really matter what the top price is,” he says. Would Allam be where he is today had he not been able to get a cheap seat? Perhaps not.
These days, the idea of getting a theatre ticket for so little – the equivalent of £3.30 today – beggars belief. It ignited a passion in him that has burned ever since. He paid 15p for a ticket to see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Old Vic. “Neither awful nor great.” Accessible artsĪllam’s love for performing was sparked by a trip to the theatre when he was young. So how is he at solving TV crimes himself? He shrugs.
Viewers are more likely to see a victim neatly strangled to death with a don’s cravat, for example, than dismembered and stuffed in a fridge freezer. The show airs pre-watershed, which limits what can be shown. Our love for crime dramas, Allam says, stems from the fact that people “love murder and death”.Īlthough Endeavour is, arguably, a shade darker than Morse, it is by no means gritty, especially compared with series such as Luther or Line of Duty. “I didn’t have anyone to live up to.” A shade darker In fact, he adds, playing an entirely new character is something of a blessing. “We all die in the end,” he says, with a throaty chuckle.
Thursday was never mentioned by John Thaw’s character, which doesn’t bode well for the character’s future. Really ordinary people who faced the worst possible thing.” Roger Allam arriving at ‘The Death Of Stalin’ UK Premiere held at Curzon Chelsea on Octoin London, England. “He reminds us of that generation who were ordinary and who went through the extremity of the most awful war ever in terms of the number of people killed. “He’s a proper, feet on the ground, decent – well, trying to be decent – human being,” he says.
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