10 Things You Didn't Know About Ralph Fiennes | Star Fun Facts

brave finds has one of the most exciting careers in hollywood he is a renowned british actor and director whose impressive filmography stretches decades he caught people's attention with stunning performances in powerful dramas and gained a reputation as an actor in prestige films he has the ability to hold the audience's attention with fear in his villainous roles through power with his headlining performances or through laughs with his comedic works his versatility makes him a joy to watch in any project here are 10 things you probably didn't know about ray fines [Music] he isn't the only famous face to come out of the finds bloodline he's most notably related to royalty standing as an eighth cousin to the prince of wales and is also a third cousin of adventurer randall finds and author william fines his father was a photographer and his mother was a novelist as the eldest of seven children his siblings are actor joseph finds martha fines a director magnus finds a composer sophie finds a filmmaker and jacob finds a conservationist his foster brother michael emery is an archaeologist and his nephew hero finds tiffen played tom riddle young lord voldemort in harry potter and the half blood prince breakthrough role ray feins made his movie debut as heathcliff in the 1992 adaptation of wuthering heights and he also appeared in the 1993 drama the baby of macon but it was his work in steven spielberg's schindler's list that really put the actor on the map the film adapts the true story of oscar schindler portrayed by liam neeson a german industrialist who saved the lives of 1 200 jewish people in poland during world war ii by bribing nazi officers to send them to his munitions factory fine stars in the film is the heinous ss officer among goth who oversees the crackout basso concentration camp and whose violence against jewish citizens inspires schindler to begin his rescue efforts he paid a big price while preparing for his schindler's list troll when it comes to preparing for roles actors have historically gone to extreme lengths commonly called the method actors often find themselves diving so deep into a role that it comes at a physical or emotional cost to prepare to play the leader of a nazi concentration work camp and schindler's list fines has said that he went so deep down the rabbit hole that he began to sympathize with the nazi leader according to the new york times fines had to immerse himself in nazi material to get a sense of the iman goth character this included watching nazi propaganda films such as triumph of the will and recruitment movies fein said he came to understand the draw to the sense of power the order and hierarchy and the patriotism that the recruitment literature and films were meant to evoke when it came to becoming goth physically fines packed on 26 pounds believing that the nazi leader turned to food and alcohol because of the atrocious acts he would commit fines understands the psychology behind the process of becoming someone as nasty as a mon goth and knows that it's all but impossible to avoid any lingering effects from the role if you are playing a role you are immersing yourself and thinking about that character how he moves how he thinks in the end he becomes an extension of your own self you like him a heavy price to pay for an important role in such a poignant movie he almost didn't accept the role of voldemort ray finds is probably the actor most associated with lord voldemort and certainly one of the fans favorites but it wasn't until 2005 in the goblet of fire that he first appeared in the franchise it was one of the greatest additions to the cast and we were very lucky because he almost turned down the part according to cinema blend this was because he hadn't seen the films or read the books and therefore didn't feel a connection with the role or understand the magnitude of it i was approached by the production mike newell was directing the film that they wanted me to be in the first time voldemort was going to appear physically out of ignorance i just sort of thought this isn't for me quite stupidly i resisted i was hesitant fortunately his family and director mike newell convinced him otherwise and the rest as they say is history he improvised voldemort's most awkward harry potter moment harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2 may have come out over a decade ago but fans haven't forgotten the film's most awkward moment the hug between voldemort and draco malfoy that takes place right before the battle of hogwarts during an appearance at dragon con in 2011 tom felton revealed that the hug wasn't planned he said that wasn't in the script we did that take like 25 times he only hugged me once it was a one-off thing that he just threw at me honestly i was like what the hell is he doing why is he hugging me in this weird fashion so it was very strange it was a surprise to me i was baffled i'm even more baffled that that was the take they used he gets mistaken for liam neeson part of an actor's job is having people notice them everywhere they go however sometimes their face can be so recognizable that people start drawing comparisons between them and other actors the harry potter actor did a recent interview with bafta award-winning comedian graeme norton on his talk show where he revealed that fans often mistake him for action actor liam neeson he said i've been complimented on my performance and taken too he then hilariously added that liam neeson also gets mistaken for him as well yes he gets complimented for his the english patient too both actors have very distinctive features but are great at making movie magic he fought against m becoming a villain ray finds is relatively new to the james bond franchise but that doesn't mean his voice hasn't carried some weight in fact the actor claimed that when he came on board for the second to last daniel craig james bond film he had to fight hard against the producers making his character a villain speaking about the role to the happy sad confused podcast fines explained i think i can say now that i had to fight off an attempt by sam and spectre to make him i said i don't want to play m and then you turn around and make him the bad guy m is never the bad guy so i had to have some pretty intense discussions with sam saying this is not flying with me it was like he was blow-felled or something but that was a red line fines had a reason to fight for what he felt was right for him as he revealed on the podcast that he was a big bond fan growing up and that he had previously had a discussion with bond producer barbara broccoli about playing bond himself ultimately however fines confessed he didn't think he was right for the role i'm not sure i'd have been very good at bond i liked the books a lot when i was in my teens i liked the films particularly the earlier connery films i had a teenage obsession with bond so when that day came of course i was flattered he got honorary serbian citizenship british actor ray fines was given a serbian passport in 2017 to honor his work in the country obtaining citizenship of an eastern european country by a western film star is rather uncommon and fines is the first major foreign star to be granted citizenship of the country he has had a special relationship with serbia ever since his director's debut kory alanis which was filmed in serbia his childhood was almost nomadic the finds brood led a nomadic bohemian existence moving house 14 times in 15 years bouncing from suffolk to ireland to wiltshire to london he concedes that this was good preparation for his life as an actor i'm in one place as long as a job requires it i like moving he is private about his personal life fines admits that the film industry frustrates him he is uncomfortable with fame opting not to discuss his personal life in the press he has however become fodder for the tabloids he once left his wife for a woman older than him about 16 years the woman was an actress and they met while they were playing hamlet at the theater fines was playing hamlet and she was playing his mother he also made news once again years later when he had sex on a plane with a flight attendant [Music]

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Published: Sun May 08 2022