, the guest on this episode of ’s podcast, is a brilliant British character actor who has distinguished himself on the stage and screens big and small, with the describing him as “vitally funny in dramatic roles [and] wrenchingly somber in comic ones.” Indeed, over the course of a career dating back 42 years, he has been a part of two SAG Award-winning casts, one for a film, 2001’s , and another for a TV series, 2023’s season two. He won a best supporting actor BAFTA TV Award for 2016’s .
And he was nominated for a best actor in a play Tony Award for 2018’s . Now, he is poised to land his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination, in the category of best actor in a limited or anthology series or TV movie, for arguably the meatiest part he has ever been asked to play on screen, and the one for which he has received the most widespread acclaim: that of on the FX limited series . Over the course of this episode, the 56-year-old reflects on his early start in the business (he was just 14 when he made his screen acting debut); his experiences on art house films like 2005’s and 2009’s versus big-studio productions like the 2006 and 2007 installments of the franchise and 2015’s ; how he wound up cast as Capote 20 years after auditioning to play him in a film, and what the response to his performance in the limited series has meant to him; plus much more.
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