When did you start acting?<\/strong><\/p>\nI was born and raised around it. When it comes to that decision of what do I want to do with my life, I went right I\u2019m an actor. I threw myself into everything I could, I missed the drama school auditions, so I joined Royal Court, writing programmes, directors courses, the Oval theatre – any programme I could get on.<\/p>\n
Would you ever want to work on a project with your dad?<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s come up a couple of times where people have been looking at him and me for different roles. But the problem is we look so similar we can\u2019t do the same things together. So we always have that problem, but he\u2019s doing much bigger stuff now. Because we look similar we\u2019re cast in the same thing. I think. We come from different waves and backgrounds and ethics. It\u2019s great, because I appreciate him. Gary Oldman\u2019s amazing and Ray [Winstone]’ they all kind of came out and smashed the industry. This is just what we do; we\u2019re characters, that\u2019s I want to be a character actor – I\u2019ll never be the pretty one.<\/p>\n
What do you enjoy most about acting?<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen you\u2019re not acting, it\u2019s very self-indulgent to sit in a room and practise emotions. You can\u2019t really practise that kind of thing. I\u2019m trying to get my band together at the moment. I\u2019m going to be like \u201chi guys, remember me? [laughs]\u201d <\/p>\n
Do you feel theatre prepared you for TV work?<\/strong><\/p>\nDefinitely. It\u2019s a different way of doing it – usually you have six weeks, so a really intensive rehearsal period. They\u2019ll ask you silly questions, like does your character play the piano – given any situation, you\u2019d know how to react. You don\u2019t really get that in film, but I try to do it anyway. Like with Orlick in Great Expectations<\/em>; he\u2019s the bad guy, but you\u2019ve got to feel sorry for him. It\u2019s all the little things, when they\u2019re not saying anything, that\u2019s when you see a lot.<\/p>\nHow was it working on the same set as Ray Winstone on Great Expectations<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\nI know Ray – he sat me down in his bar, made me pour pints and told me about the industry. He\u2019s so lovely. We didn\u2019t get to film together, but we saw each other quite a few times. I just felt so privileged being in his presence.<\/p>\n
Where do you hope to be in your career in five years time?<\/strong><\/p>\nI want to be the character actor of Britain. Whenever there\u2019s someone odd, weird or that has to really delve into something, that\u2019s where I want to be – I want to be \nknown for that. \n \nWords: Kerina Duhra<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Roth – son of Tim – has risen to attention since starring in BBC\u2019s Great Expectations and the second series of Sky\u2019s Bedlam, which premiered last week. Wonderland sat down with Roth to discuss his career to date just ahead of his newest film,Strawberry Fields – out early next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3632],"tags":[1342,2482,559,50,2469,2431,2468,2471,2472,1078],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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