![Tom: My boy is Benedict. He’s brilliant, actually. And it’s not blowing smoke up his arse, like. Brilliant as in like, he’s a nice bloke. But he has a sensibility and an oddness to him and a directness and a fantastic sense of humour, which… He— in many ways we’re very very similar in our approach to work. So I respect him on a purely fundamental level of, like, going into the trenches or whatever with him, I feel very confident I’ve got someone who’s supportive and very capable to throw in… what I would call next level choices… He’s definitely an actor that has an ability to play in the sort of outer field of basic acting work, d’you know what I mean? So as a professional he is a very generous, very sensitive, very thoughtful, focused, disciplined actor. [Benedict approaches] Oh. Sit here, man.Benedict: Shall I sit here?Tom: Yeah, yeah.Benedict: Hello.Tom: I just said some awful shit about you, man.Benedict: Did you? Were you really rude? Thanks. He’s, I tell you, behind my back, he’s really bitchy.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljm667KNSZ1qb44qfo1_500.gif)
Tom: My boy is Benedict. He’s brilliant, actually. And it’s not blowing smoke up his arse, like. Brilliant as in like, he’s a nice bloke. But he has a sensibility and an oddness to him and a directness and a fantastic sense of humour, which… He— in many ways we’re very very similar in our approach to work. So I respect him on a purely fundamental level of, like, going into the trenches or whatever with him, I feel very confident I’ve got someone who’s supportive and very capable to throw in… what I would call next level choices… He’s definitely an actor that has an ability to play in the sort of outer field of basic acting work, d’you know what I mean? So as a professional he is a very generous, very sensitive, very thoughtful, focused, disciplined actor. [Benedict approaches] Oh. Sit here, man.
Benedict: Shall I sit here?
Tom: Yeah, yeah.
Benedict: Hello.
Tom: I just said some awful shit about you, man.
Benedict: Did you? Were you really rude? Thanks. He’s, I tell you, behind my back, he’s really bitchy.
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