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I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

Christian Cooke
Art, Fun, Block

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

Christian Cooke
Brother, Agents, My Brother
"The New Shakespearean: Christian Cooke". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

So many directors these days direct by design and shoehorn you into things - direction or blocking - that they had in mind previously. They're short on time and they want to get that over with so they can get onto the finer details of a play.

Christian Cooke
Block, Design, Mind
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I turn 30 next month, and in my 20s, I've been in this limbo of being too old to play the young lead, and too young to play the 30, 35 - year - old. I've always had an older head on my shoulders because I've hung out with older people. I was in television shows with older actors, and when I was 15, 16, 17, I sat up in hotel lobby bars with older actors until the early hours of the morning hearing them tell stories. I've always been drawn to older characters and I've always struggled to get into the younger roles. It feels good to be finally getting to an age where I'm playing my age.

Christian Cooke
Morning, Character, People
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted to do, but, in a weird way, if you do television and film and you didn't go to drama school and don't have a theatrical background, it's hard to get your foot in the door. In the same way that it is for theater actors to get into television and film. There's a weird prejudice that goes both ways.

Christian Cooke
Drama, School, Prejudice
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

But the thing is if you've got an hour to sit down in front of a television, then the likelihood is that you've probably got two hours. So why wouldn't you, if you're enjoying it not want to watch the other one? And so, this is the future. Ten episodes at once is what everyone wants, and then it's up to you how you spread those out

Christian Cooke
Two, Watches, Up To You
Source: www.indiewire.com

Ultimately, if the character is interesting and you said that before: It doesn't matter if it's likable. That's really what it is. If they interest you. If the context in which the characters are set interests you then I think then you're pulled in by it.

Christian Cooke
Character, Thinking, Interesting
Source: www.indiewire.com

I much prefer following a lead character that is doing morally questionable things. How much do you get on board? Do like that? Do you hate it? Does it matter?

Christian Cooke
Hate, Character, Does It Matter
Source: www.indiewire.com

This medium that we're working in - film and television - for an audience, it's like you live through these characters because it's things you can't do in real life. Places you're not prepared to go in real life as a decent human being, anyway. Because if you're a conscientious person, so you live kind of vicariously through these people.

Christian Cooke
Real, Character, People
Source: www.indiewire.com

I don't think you have to like a character, but if you can understand why they do what they do, or the position they're in or why they make certain choices, then you can get behind them.

Christian Cooke
Character, Thinking, Choices
Source: www.indiewire.com

Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

Christian Cooke
Streaming, Episodes, Feels
Source: www.indiewire.com

It almost feels like a movie or a- I know it's been said many times - that cable television is the new novel kind of thing - but it does feel like that.

Christian Cooke
Doe, Television, Kind
Source: www.indiewire.com

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