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One of my favorite articles 

Anyone have a copy of this article? I can’t read the tiny, pixelated text :(

I couldn’t find the original link to this article but this was the best I could make out (I got all but three words):

There is an old saying, “You never know where the ride is going to take you.”  Consider the ride of Scottish actor Tommy Flanagan.  One of five children born in Glasgow, and raised by a single mother.  Flanagan was a DJ at a Glasgow night club back in the late 1980’s.  While walking home one night he was jumped by a group of men, one of whom had a knife, “it was a wrong place at the wrong time sort of thing.  I was D.O.A. when I arrived at the hospital, but somehow I was given a second chance, and that second chance gave me a new outlook on life, and is what really got me into acting.” it also left Flanagan with deep scars on both sides of his face, giving him a very distinctive look.

With the help of soccer pal Robert (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) Carlyle, who ran the Raindog Theater Company in Glasgow, Flanagan took to the boards with gusto, landing roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, MacBeth and Wasted I and II.  After some TV work and small roles in British and Scottish films, Flanagan was cast in Mel GIbsons’s Braveheart, in the pivotal role of Morrison whose new bride is taken from him by a British nobleman, the first in a chain of events that causes the angry Scottish clans to rise up against their British oppressors.

“Mel is absolutely my favorite director that I’ve ever worked with.  He just totally puts you at ease.  I was terrified, a young actor on this big film set.  One day we’re walking down for lunch and Mel sees me and sits down next to me.  From then on, we struck up a nice friendship and it was really great, I’d generally been a stage actor before Braveheart.  From then on, for me, it was movies, movies, movies.”

Following Braveheart, Flanagan continued playing supporting roles in such DIVERSE films as The Saint, Face/Off, Plunket & Macleane, The Game, and more recently the role of Russell Crowe’s dutiful squire Cicero in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.  “Ridley is a true master, a real craftsman.  He runs the set like a very friendly General, doing multiple things at once.  He can talk [can not for the life of me figure out this word] with his crew and character with his actors with equal skill.  And Russell is a terrific guy as well.  He’s a real man’s man, and a wonderful, very committed actor.  Very generous to the other people in the cast.”

After giving solid support for so long, Tommy Flanagan has finally landed a leading role that clearly displays his talent and versability.  In Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Flanagan plays the father of a poor Glasgow family struggling to hold things together during a garbage strike in the mid-1970’s.  Flanagan found that the experience hit close to home, in more ways than one.  “My parents separated when I was a kid.  My father left us after that.  The character I play in Ratcatcher is basically my father, a drunken, misogynistic kind of guy.  Since he wasn’t around, I never really got to know my father’s side of the family.  It turned out that the two kids who play my children in the film are my second cousins on my father’s side!  Isn’t that bizarre?”

Flanagan also does a terrific dastardly turn as Bleda, the vengeful half-brother of Attila the Hun in USA Network’s epic miniseries Attila, which premieres January 30 on the USA cable network.  “Doing that film was an amazing experience.  We shot in Lithuania, which has an astounding history.  Those people have been conquered and abused for so long…it’s very sad.  They have a incredible spirit.  I love traveling to new places, because it always makes me appreciate what I have.”

THANK YOU!! Such a great article :DDD