Tom Sturridge

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Tom Sturridge: The Sandman was an 'extraordinary' audition process (What's On TV)

Tom Sturridge stars in Netflix's big-budget adaptation of Neil Gaiman's DC comic The Sandman...

I feel I may have read it all the way from start to finish several times now, and I feel like I know it intimately." "What became terrifying about the audition was not so much trying to become him, but being so excited to potentially be a part of this world. Beyond auditioning for the character, I just fell in love with Sandman as a piece of literature. "I thought very carefully about how I was going to dream that night," he says. After this quite haunting and terrifying hour and a half of my life, I got a phone call from Allan Heinberg telling me I'd got the part. "The audition process was extraordinarily long," he explains.

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Sandman: Neil Gaiman Had to Tell Tom Sturridge to Stop Sounding ... (IGN)

Sandman creator Neil Gaiman had to tell the show's star to stop doing 'the Batman voice' when he first began playing the show's lead role.

His turnaround in opinion comes down to the quality of this version, and how it matches his original stories. Showrunner Allen Heinberg revealed taht Sturridge even initially asked whether his voice would be altered in post-production. "He wasn't aware he was doing it," Gaiman told IGN. "He wasn't doing it as Batman. He was just trying to find something for a Morpheus voice that was more talking in white on a black background, I think.

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The Sandman stars felt "the burden of people's dreams" while ... (GamesRadar+)

Tom Sturridge, who plays Dream, and Vivienne Acheampong, who appears as Lucienne, talk Neil Gaiman's involvement and how the practical sets aided their ...

"The columns of marble were real, the murals on the wall were painted. "I think the danger with something like this is that you start treating it like some kind of computer game that you don't connect to. For me, as an actor, that was so thrilling to work in that way." "That was one of the most amazing things about this job. So it's only the things that really needed to be green screen that were green screen and special effects, which are also equally as wonderful. I'm such an enormous fan myself and, you know, the burden of people's dreams for it was very real, but to know that everything we were doing was being led in some way by its creator felt very reassuring, for sure."

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The Sandman's Tom Sturridge breaks down that "embarrassing ... (digitalspy.com)

The Sandman actor Tom Sturridge has spoken about his "embarrassing" naked scene in episode 1 of the Netflix series.

"One of the things about Morpheus is: that situation, that century of imprisonment is the most vulnerable he's been in, in his existence. "I was in that sphere, and they couldn't open it, because it took too long. "It was embarrassing.

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The Sandman bosses pay tribute to Tom Sturridge as 'number one ... (Daily Express)

THE SANDMAN has just arrived and the 2022 adaptation stars Tom Sturridge as the main protagonist. The show's bosses have praised the star for his stellar ...

Creators Neil Gaiman and Allan Heinberg spoke to Express.co.uk and other press about the casting. "He was completely comfortable with the formality and the archaism of the lines and let them be what they were and as Allan says, they sound utterly natural." The show's bosses have praised the star for his stellar performance. "He feels the hopes and dreams and nightmares of every creature all the time and so there is a depth of feeling you actually see in every frame. "And what Tom understood and brought it from the very beginning is that is only sort of half true. The Sandman is on Netflix now and the series follows Dream, also known as Morpheus, as he rebuilds his fallen kingdom.

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Tom Sturridge & Alexa Chung Are Enjoying A Summer Of Love (Bustle)

The duo followed the timely tradition of debuting their romance at Wimbledon.

Since then, she has presented Netflix’s Next In Fashion and continues to be an influential figure in the fashion world. Meanwhile, Sturridge and Chung were also pictured enjoying Glastonbury 2022 together, with fans spotting them as they made their way around the muddy field. Interestingly, the couple were not alone, as they were joined by Sturridge’s ex-girlfriend Sienna Miller and her new partner Oli Green. The foursome looked happy to be sharing the day together, often chatting during the tennis breaks.

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Tom Sturridge Shares What 'Terrified' Him About' Sandman ' — and ... (PEOPLE.com)

Tom Sturridge tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week's issue that starring Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman came with a huge sense of ...

"It's a glass sphere and people would see if there's a blanket in there." And although it was a baptism of fire, and was incredibly ridiculous, I felt like I could take anything on from then." He continues, "I made the film of it in my head as I was reading it.

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Watch: Dream Himself Tom Sturridge Sums up 'The Sandman' in 60 ... (We Got This Covered)

After 33 years, The Sandman finally hit screens this Friday, with Netflix's much-anticipated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's seminal comic book saga debuting ...

With this inaugural season adapting the first two graphic novels out of a collection of 10, there’s enough material to keep the series going until season five. Thankfully, after literally decades of hype, The Sandman is proving not to disappoint as audiences are loving it. As The Sandman is far from your typical comic book show — it’s not a “hero punches villain until the world is saved” kind of tale — there’s a lot to cover, but the British actor proves why he was cast as the Prince of Stories by recapping the whole journey with aplomb.

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