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And that's even before you get the part and have to research your role and learn your lines and learn how to dance or sing or save the world or maybe do the splits.' Now, three of them have fallen by the wayside. For two of them, I got recalls and I did them and then went away.

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'There was a period about two weeks ago when I'd been to America to do some auditions and then I came back to London for one at the BBC, and then had a series of three auditions, back to back, for American films, and had to come in with all the parts learnt. Because if you don't want it, you're not going to do yourself justice. Because the process of actually going for a job has to contain a certain amount of want. He has refused even a glass of water, is sitting two feet away from me and listening to my questions with such polite concentration that I can't wrest my gaze from his puppy-dog eyes.

What happened to the wunderkind who played Hamlet? What happened to the star of Primary Colors? What happened was that the actor who was plucked, in his words, out of 'relative obscurity' to star, with John Travolta and Emma Thompson, in Mike Nichols's 1998 adaptation of Joe Klein's novel about a presidential candidate with strong resemblances to Bill Clinton, and who was nominated for a Chicago Film Critics' Association award for 'most promising actor' for his role as Henry Burton (a character many took to be modelled on the real-life Washington press secretary George Stephanopoulos) and who was a star guest on Oprah Winfrey's show, didn't work for a year. All great fun, of course, but hardly Hamlet. 'It's been a long delay and that makes me bite my nails and think, 'I hope it's not crap,'' he confesses.Īnd now he's back to Hustle. Case 39 isn't out yet (it's due in cinemas this year), but even Lester admits he's nervous. Bonekickers was the most fun I had on set.' Well, maybe, but Bonekickers was universally panned and dropped after one series. Starting Out in the Evening was really great, and I'd never shot in New York. Beyond I liked, because I'd never worked with Fox before and we were working in LA. 'I loved Doomsday,' he says, 'because I got a chance to do a bit of action, a bit of running and jumping, kicking the bad guys around.

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He did Case 39, a horror film about child abuse co-starring Renée Zellweger Starting Out in the Evening, a small-budget film about an ageing novelist Bonekickers, a TV drama about a team of archaeologists Beyond, a Fox drama about the space race and Doomsday, a blockbuster about a virus that threatens to wipe out the population of London. Lester starred in the first three series of Hustle and then, when his character disappeared to Australia to sell off the Sydney Opera House, he took on a spectrum of roles even more wide-ranging than Mickey.