>Aidan Gillen is perched on an oversized sofa, head-to-toe in black save for brown boots and the two splashes of silver among his short dark curls. His face is pointedly handsome. The definitive word on his unblinking gaze comes in his best film, The Low Down, in which his co-star tells him: “You’ve got, um, quite starey eyes, haven’t you?”
>Now and then, he’ll turn up in something glossy – The Dark Knight Rises, or the latest Maze Runner film. But you would need to go all the way back to Channel 4’s Queer as Folk in 1999 to find him fully in the spotlight. That’s how he likes it: “If you can walk into a room where there are 20 people who don’t know what to expect from you, then you can pretend better.”
>He has no compunction about being bells-and-whistles bonkers when it suits him: he was at his most inspired as a hammer-wielding cop-killer in the Jason Statham thriller Blitz. To prepare for that part, he made apocalyptic videos and tried to buy a hammer while in costume and in character. “They wouldn’t sell me one,” he says proudly. “That’s when I knew it was working.”
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/dec/09/aidan-gillen-i-hate-fame-but-id-miss-it-too
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