Richard Armitage is full of surprises, not least of which that he joined the circus when he was a young boy. In a new interview with Nylon Guys, Armitage talks about his youth, and adds that while he didn’t run away as originally rumored, he did join the circus. He says, “I did join a circus, but I never ran away. I was 19 and needed an Equity card.”
Armitage has become a familiar face to the global audience thanks to his strong performance as Thorin Oakenshield in ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’. With two sequels coming out in the next few years, Armitage is here to stick around. Of his work in ‘The Hobbit’, he says, “If this opportunity had come to me 10 years ago, I would not have survived. I wouldn’t have known what to do with it. Now I feel like I’ve got an opinion to bring to it, my own interpretation of the character and the book, but other things as well, attitudes that I think we can make resonate with a contemporary audience: honor, loyalty, nobility, corruption.”
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