Rufus Sewell: "The Man in the High Castle"

The Treatment

KCRW

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Actor Rufus Sewell is best known as a villain, having struck fear in protagonists’ hearts for over twenty years – with a witty and thoughtful acting style. His current role is one of his biggest, and most challenging – the American Nazi of Amazon Studios’ adaptation of “The Man in the High Castle”. And, of course, Sewell got his start in comedy – and he talks about how his beginnings (and comic precision) still play apart in his work.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:13.1	Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest, I can say as an actor, seems to be attracted to roles where society is in turmoil,
0:22.7	be it as Hotspur or Illuminati or a cold comfort farm or a world I love him for, Dark City,
0:29.7	or maybe something that you all know him for. The show is now in its fourth season on Amazon,
0:34.9	Man the High Castle. Of course, I'm talking about Rufus Sewell. Thanks so much for being here. Pleasure to be here. Nice to meet, Elvis. Nice to meet you. But you do tend to turn up
0:42.1	in lots of material where the world is about to shift or shifting in a fairly violent way.
0:47.5	I think those are the worlds that are attracted to me rather than the other way around, though...
0:51.8	Really? Yeah, I suppose, just like with relationships, you know, it's not necessarily the way you think it is.
0:56.4	Sometimes it's the other way around.
0:58.4	But, yes, because actually, I'm equally attracted to very light and frothy comedy.
1:05.3	In fact, I'd always say it was my forte.
1:07.6	But the kind of roles that tend to come my way, especially in larger projects, tend to be,
1:14.4	you know, tend to be that kind of thing. I enjoy doing them. Sometimes the biggest challenge is
1:18.6	finding a difference in something that on paper looks similar to something I've been offered before.
1:23.1	So there's nothing to do with my preferences. But it certainly comes to, and we can say in a number of these cases, you can play some of these roles for comedy.
1:30.4	I mean, we look at the cold comfort farm, which is basically a society that was flipping over because of one person, as a matter of fact.
1:36.4	That's definitely comedy.
1:37.5	Well, I did that in an effort to change my career.
1:41.2	There's been many over the years points of which i thought something will
1:46.6	show people you know something else i can do you know and actually the great revolution in my
1:54.2	career over the last few years is that i stopped caring about that and just started to enjoy myself
1:57.6	and not worry about trying to affect a change in my career you just used to say before we got started, but what was that because clearly you've always got
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