Just Like Jean Valjean, Dominic West Is Done Being A Bad Guy

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🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Les Miserables.

After a career of playing notable villains, actor Dominic West says he’s ready to turn a new leaf. So his role as the tortured thief, Jean Valjean, in the new MASTERPIECE production of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Les Misérables, is a helpful bridge to be a better man on screen. In an interview, he talks about what it means to play Valjean, how his character seeks personal redemption and what the rest of the series has in store for the repentant former prisoner 24601.

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0:35.0	I'm Jace Lakeob and you're listening to Masterpiece Studio. The story is well known,
0:46.4	an impoverished man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family and spends 19 years in prison.
0:52.0	Upon his release, the convict nearly falls prey to old habits,
0:56.0	but instead spends the rest of his life struggling to prove he has truly reformed.
1:01.0	What are you doing there, my friend?
1:04.0	Trying to sleep, what does it look like?
1:06.0	Why don't you go to an inn?
1:08.0	I did.
1:09.0	Wouldn't take me.
1:11.0	No one would take me.
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1:17.0	Le Miserab, the bleak stakes of the story take on dazzling new heights.
1:21.0	Consider this even if the world has done you, a great injustice.
1:26.8	Does it really serve you to have a heart full of bitterness and hatred? How could I not have a heart full of bitterness and hatred?
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