Rufus Sewell ‘enjoys’ growing old
RUFUS Sewell who is starring in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Old’, professes that he is content at growing older.
Asked if he was spooked by the ageing effects on the movie, which centres on a group of people trapped on a beach who are rapidly ageing, he said: “Quite the opposite! I am not someone who is neurotic about getting older – I mean, I actually quite like it, up to a point.
“I enjoy the process of getting older because it took me a while to get rid of ideas that I had about myself that weren’t helpful.
“That said, I am 53 now and sometimes I look in the mirror and think: ‘Ugh!’.
Rufus opened up on the lengthy make-up process on the movie and how realistic the work was.
He explained: “For ‘Old’, I would sit in a make-up chair for four hours and have them add 25 years on me and, because the make-up was so good, by the end of the day I would think that that’s my face.”
Meanwhile, Rufus regretted his hangovers when filming ‘A Knight’s Tale’.
The 53-year-old actor starred alongside the late Heath Ledger in the 2001 medieval flick and confessed that being worse for wear while dressed in armour was “not pleasant”.
Rufus said: “I am very fond of that film and those memories. Me and Heath (Ledger) were very close and we did have a riotous good time. I learned that is not a pleasant experience.”
The ‘Hercules’ star also revealed that wearing armour presented him with a number of practical challenges during filming for Brian Helgeland’s movie.