Jack Lowden

2023 - 2 - 7

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Slow Horses & The Gold Jack Lowden Says Actors Should Act, No ... (Deadline)

As far as he's concerned, ”you're not an actor ” when “you're sort of political.” However, it's crime, not politics, that's at the center of the rollicking ...

Lowden explains he got into producing because “I wanted to force myself into a corner” to make shows held talked about for years. Lowden calls the Oscar winner “a hell of a funny guy”. “It’s about improving my knowledge, and Saoirse is exactly the same. “The joy of being on stage and making people laugh because that’s the only immediate reception you get to be laughed at and so that’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. The fourth shoots in three and a half weeks. The actor assures us that he’s always been game for a laugh though there was a period early on in his career where he seemed to play incredibly serious roles. The trainer, says Lowden, gave him an understanding of “presence” and of how Noye should carry himself. It was so bizarre and very different to what I’ve played in the past.” Another key aspect of creating Noye was the “shit ton of hair. Lowden tells us that he relished playing the notorious crook Noye and refuses to judge his moral vacuity. Lowden acknowledges that Macdonald was indeed an incredible man, but says he took the job in Small Axe: Mangrove first and foremost because he wanted to work with McQueen. That The Gold shines is due to the passionate social awareness,and, yes, wit that underpins Forsyth’s writing and Aneil Karia’s direction.

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Jack Lowden on Slow Horses, The Gold and being out-acted by ... (iNews)

Jack Lowden used to think that actors who stayed in accent in between takes were “arseholes”. Then he realised it can be useful. When the Scottish actor had to ...

His production company, Arcade Pictures, set up with producer Dominic Norris and Lowden’s girlfriend, Saoirse Ronan, is currently in the edit of an adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s bestselling memoir The Outrun, in which Ronan stars as a recovering alcoholic returning to the Orkney Islands. After being rejected from “drama school after drama school after drama school”, Lowden was eventually accepted by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. When Lowden transitioned to screen, it was a shock: “I was like ‘What? “[They are] wildly, wildly different but what they have in common is that they all know exactly what they want,” he says. Spoofing High School Musical, the clip survives on YouTube and there is a point on every set where Lowden finds a group of crew, shoulders bobbing, and realises “Yeh, they’ve found my beginnings”. But sometimes I think that you can also see that as a guise, a sort of excuse for committing crime.” “There’s a lot of people that were affected by this that are still around,” he explains. And I got big as well – I put on a lot of beef. “It was the biggest robbery in world history up until that point, and there were a lot of people out of their depths. He sees it as “a strong reflection of what we make on these islands. I would recommend it to everyone”) as MI5 misfit River Cartwright in [Apple TV+’s understated thriller Slow Horses,](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/slow-horses-series-2-apple-tv-review-grimy-and-downbeat-not-your-average-espionage-thriller-1994712?ico=in-line_link) Lowden is generally found vocally prowling the South East of England. Jack Lowden used to think that actors who stayed in accent in between takes were “arseholes”.

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