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He knows how to spin a yarn the 69-year-old has told plenty.
Molina laughs a lot: there are the small crinkles that cut into his stories, threatening to capsize them in mid-flow, and then there’s the big boom that comes at the end of a delicious anecdote. “Leading man… character man… total loser,” Molina reels off, then bursts into laughter. He thought to himself, “So that’s it? After three years?” The term, handed to him like a “consolation prize”, seemed to suggest a kind of hierarchy.
I think you have to come to terms with the fact that you really won’t work until you’re well into your forties.’” A dramatic pause, and then a flourish: “‘You’re a character man.’” The actor was deflated. (He’s the London-born son of a Spanish father and Italian mother.) Molina starts to summon the patronising RP of his tutor, creasing up as he does so. Back then, the Spider-Man star was still Alfredo, later advised to drop the “o” to anglicise his name. The reason for such emphasis on that word? A memory, perhaps, of a pep talk he was given in his final year of drama school. “There was a time when ‘character actor’ meant someone who wasn’t quite good enough to be a leading man,” the celebrated actor and owner of Hollywood’s best eyebrows tells me, leaning forward, “and I think that’s bollocks.” Everyone calls Alfred Molina a character actor.
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