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But even that didn’t entirely make him more conscious of his health moving forward. There was also his diagnosis, in 1996, of acute myeloid leukaemia, which nearly killed him. He wasn’t always overweight – fans of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet will remember a much slimmer Spall in the show’s early years – but years of booze and industry parties eventually took their toll, coinciding with much of his most high-profile work (“I’ve been different sizes but, the thing is, I did a lot of stuff when I was a bigger fella,” he says). Spall with director Mike Leigh on the set of ‘Mr Turner’ But it’s arguable that the Spall of today would feel at home lounging by the pool in Los Angeles, at least based on his new physique. Spall hasn’t spent much time working in the US this decade, however, instead returning to his British indie film roots and becoming a regular presence in Brits-of-a-certain-age projects like Finding Your Feet or The Party, all seemingly spawned in the wake of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. here, where you just go, ‘My god, we’re making a blimmin’ movie! How did this happen?’” It was all much bigger and longer, and you realise that it’s all backed up by huge organisations that have a whole plan of how the film is gonna be disseminated and be publicised and so on and so forth. And I started working over there and I was delighted by it. But then one day, post- Secrets and Lies, it came along and then I went off. I also had a young family, so I was getting on with that, bringing up my kids with my wife. “I never did the ‘hanging around the pool’ thing. “I always made this conscious decision that I was never going to America until I was asked,” he recalls.
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All were slightly subservient roles, mirrored even in the UK on occasion (most notably as the feeble underling of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter franchise), but still, he admits, thrilling.Īccess unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial Sign up Looked at today, Spall’s US credits are intriguing – there was the Mark Wahlberg/Jennifer Aniston music industry comedy Rock Star, where he played a roadie, his turn as the snivelling minion to a Disney prince in the Amy Adams musical Enchanted, and the time he offered legal advice to Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky. And, through the Noughties, Spall was one of the most high-profile British character actors to make the leap to America. He was there when English repertory theatre was still a thriving industry, a major presence in the explosion of working-class British comedy/drama in the Eighties, exemplified by Quadrophenia and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and a recognisable figure in the British cinema boom of the Nineties, when films like Still Crazy and Topsy-Turvy were as successful at the box office as they were in awards circles.
Spall has been an important part of the trajectory of British acting for nearly four decades, and knows better than most how things can rapidly shift.
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