"For a long time, I've had to hustle," he admits. In fact, he's disarmingly honest about his stop-start career. If Sewell is bored of being asked why he isn't a bigger star, he's far too polite to say so. "Well, I have to think something, don't I?" "Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting." He lets out a big laugh. So I've been close lots of times, but I think it's been the making of me as an actor." He pauses. I was in Shakespeare In Love with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart. I was in The Wings Of The Dove with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was the lead in Interview With The Vampire, until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. "People talk about opportunity knocking," he says, "but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. Before his 30th birthday, he had starred in two hugely successful TV adaptations, of Middlemarch and Cold Comfort Farm, and taken a lead role in the original production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, alongside Felicity Kendal and Bill Nighy. ![]() T here was a moment in the mid-1990s when Rufus Sewell's international stardom was assured.
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