Andrew Buchan
Andrew Buchan
Andrew Buchanis an English stage and television actor known for his roles as Mark Latimer in the ITV drama Broadchurch, as Scott Foster in the BBC political drama Party Animals, as John Mercer in ITV drama series The Fixer, and as William Garrow in BBC period drama Garrow's Law...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth19 February 1979
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When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.
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I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
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I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.
fascinated work
I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.
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I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.
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I did work hard at auditions, and three years at RADA isn't like a walk in the park. And then it takes a lot of sacrifices, giving certain things up in order to audition, in order to do a play, whatever it may be.
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Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.
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When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with.
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I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.
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I've been to L.A., it's horrible. Don't waste your money on the flight.
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The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.
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I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.
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I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.
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I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.