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\n\tNicholas Hoult opened about his fear of succumbing to the fate of child actors after his break out role in the 2002 Hugh Grant dramedy About a Boy<\/em>, revealing that \u201ceveryone [back] then, even as a kid, everyone talks to you about how child actors stop working, their life goes off the rails and [how] it doesn\u2019t work out as adults. You have this kind of fear of what\u2019s to come.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 36-year-old British actor reflected on his almost three decade career as a mainstream star during a \u201cIn Conversation With\u201d talk event at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah on Monday. <\/p>\n

\n\tHoult began the talk by detailing his childhood, revealing that he lived in a household that loved musical theater and acting. He briefly talked about his first audition as a 5-year-old for Philip Goodhew\u2019s 1996 film Intimate Relations<\/em> and then talked about his time working on Paul and Chris Weitz\u2019s About a Boy<\/em> as an 11-year-old. After confessing his fears of making it in the business despite the good notices for his performance in the Nick Horby adaptation, Hoult said that the talk around him at the time, and being aware of the failure some child actors did play on his mind. \u201cEven then I knew I wanted to continue [acting] but I was like there\u2019s a good chance this doesn\u2019t work out,\u201d he said before adding, \u201cLuckily my parents and my family were wonderful in the sense of they sent me to a normal school and kept life around acting as regular as possible, so there was never like this pressure to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn About a Boy<\/em>, Hoult starred alongside Toni Collette, the Aussie actress who played his character\u2019s mother. Hoult remarked on the \u201cspecial\u201d nature of meeting Collette as a child, and working with her again twenty years later. \u201cShe played my mum in [About a Boy<\/em>], and then we did a movie two years ago called Juror No. 2<\/em>, that Clint Eastwood directed. It was lovely to reunite with her. These people that have known me since I was a kid, but now I\u2019m a completely different person. Now I get to know them again as an adult, which is really special.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe talk moved on to Hoult\u2019s time on the revolutionary British teen TV drama Skins<\/em>, the show that launched the careers of a dizzying number of now established actors including Daniel Kaluuya, Dev Patel, Jack O\u2019Connell, Hannah Murray, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kaya Scodelario and Joe Dempsie. Hoult had just missed Kaluuya at Red Sea Film Festival by a few days and remarked that \u201cone of the wonderful things about Skins<\/em> is that I made some of my best friends for life from that show.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDescribing his Skins<\/em> character Tony Stonem as a \u201cpiece of work\u201d, Hoult reflected on his time working on the show fondly. \u201cWe all were like 16 or 17-years-old, living away from home for the first time in Bristol. We grew up together. No one expected that show would take off the way it did. It was the first drama that was made for [the Channel 4 youth orientated channel E4]. The script<\/a> was great, it was a good team but no one expected it to [be so big]. What was unique about it was that we all went in with no expectations, we were just having fun. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn his move into franchise acting, Hoult reveals the quirk of fate that led him to be securing the role of Beast in in Matthew Vaughn\u2019s 2011 hit X-Men: First Class<\/em>. \u201cOne of the things that led to [playing Beast] was Tom Ford\u2019s first movie A Single Man<\/em>. After that I was actually cast in Mad Max<\/em>, but we had to delay the filming because we were meant to shoot in Australia but we had to move it to Namibia. So then I called my agents and said I needed a job. And they said there was interest in you playing Beast in X-Men<\/em>. I had to do an audition for that for that in Australia the next day, and I jumped on the plane for a screen test and it all worked out.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOnce again reminding people how young he actually is despite his seemingly veteran status as a mainstream star, Hoult said he grew up watching the X-Men<\/em> movies<\/a> and loved the comics. He shared one particularly \u201ccrazy\u201d moment for him on the set of 2014\u2019s X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/em>. \u201cI was in the Cerebro corridor with James McAvoy playing Xavier, and then I looked over and it was Hugh Jackman as Wolverine [standing there]. I was [thinking] this is the guy that I was watching play Wolverine when I was 11-years-old and now I\u2019m standing next to him and you know it was really like an out of body experience, a bit like trip<\/a>ping. It was really bizarre, it\u2019s like \u2018oh I\u2019m reliving my childhood, but in real time.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAsked if he felt was now famous and receiving attention from fans after starring in a huge franchise like X-Men<\/em>, Hoult quipped that \u201cfor those [films] I was mostly covered in blue fur. So it wasn\u2019t like walking down the street and people were like \u2018there\u2019s that guy!\u2019 But the comic fans are really supportive and caring and they\u2019re passionate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMoving on to his acclaimed performance in George Miller\u2019s 2015 masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em>, Hoult described working on the project as \u201cthe strangest experience, right from the audition.\u201d He said that his audition lasted four hours and that he and his scene partner did one scene where they were playing observation game<\/a>s, doing repetitive tasks and physical activities. \u201cIt was like theater training and I left the audition thinking, even if I don\u2019t get this movie, that\u2019s been one of the best experiences I\u2019ve had as an actor.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHoult described Miller as \u201cso creative and intelligent\u201d and reflected on the deafening Fury Road<\/em> shoot in Namibia. \u201c[A lot of it was practical] so you couldn\u2019t hear anything. They\u2019d give the signal to start up the engines and the vehicles and for 20 or 30 minutes we would cross the desert filming and occasionally you\u2019d see a camera fly by like on another truck or something and you\u2019d just be like doing scenes, not really hearing them and wondering what was happening.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe added that, \u201cGeorge has got such a wonderful vision. There wasn\u2019t a script, it was like a comic book that he had\u2026 A week or two into filming, I was completely in awe of the whole experience and I said to George, \u2018you\u2019ve been wanting to make this movie for 17 years, how do you feel now you\u2019re here?\u2019 And he said, \u2018it\u2019s very special to be here but at the same time [I can\u2019t] get carried away with my love for the project. The people that go to the theater [to watch this] in two years time, they\u2019re not coming in with this investment in the story [that I have], you still need to create that for them.\u2019 Which I thought was a really smart [thing to say].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn his recent work on James Gunn\u2019s Superman<\/em>, Hoult spoke about auditioning to play the Man of Steel initially but as he read the script, he realized that he could really see himself playing Lex Luthor instead. \u201cThe first time I read the script, I remember reading the Lex scenes and thinking these are interesting. \u2018I might actually be better at that than Superman,\u2019 but I was like, well don\u2019t say that to anyone now whilst you\u2019re auditioning for Superman [laughs].\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy brain was like, yes, that\u2019s the character [Lex] you should and need to be playing because there were just moments in the dialogue and the script where I thought that it\u2019s really delicious. A man like this, he is definitely very much the villain of that story, but at the same time, there\u2019s this thing where if you unpack things you could piece together what his motivations are and see that there is a different angle to this. It could make sense, even though [Lex] is misguided and his approach is awful, it\u2019s terrible.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHoult said he loved working with Gunn on Superman<\/em>, saying \u201cI really trusted him. We went through the rehearsals and and he\u2019d say like \u2018this isn\u2019t working, let\u2019s try this, let\u2019s do that,\u2019 and so it was explorative in the sense of developing the character together.\u201d The actor revealed that his research for the film included Brian Azzarello\u2019s comic series Lex Luthor: Man of Steel<\/em>, as well as watching the original Christopher Reeves Superman<\/em> movies and the recent Reeves documentary Super\/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. <\/em>He added that he was excited to play Lex as he was following in the footsteps of Gene Hackman, one of his all-time favorite actors. <\/p>\n

\n\tLater, during an audience Q&A session, Hoult was asked which director he would like to work with. He said he was keen to work with Red Sea Film Festival competition jury president Sean Baker. \u201cI think he is a wonderful [filmmaker], Florida Project<\/em>, Red Rocket<\/em>, I think he\u2019s making really special movies.\u201d Hoult also cited Quentin Tarantino, and joked that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t say no\u201d to working with fellow Brit Christopher Nolan. <\/p>\n

\n\tHoult was also asked whether he would consider directing, and he was clear that he wasn\u2019t interested right now, as he knew the job of a director was \u201cextremely hard.\u201d But he confessed that he idly imagined he might be able to tell a certain story in his way, but for the moment he wanted to concentrate on acting. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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