Inteview: Jeremy Irvine, actor
WHEN Jeremy Irvine shared his first scene with his War Horse, there were tears in his eyes. “It was an audition and I was desperately trying to portray myself as this master horseman,” he recalls. “Then I put my foot in the wrong place and the horse stamped on it. I got through the rest of what was already quite an emotional scene with a real sob in my voice.”
Irvine is 21, with the hair of Montgomery Clift, the blue-eyed squint of Paul Newman and a healthy appreciation of luck and irony that is all his own. We’re sitting in his suite at Claridge’s in London, two floors above the tearoom where he first met Steven Spielberg as part of a long audition process for the role of Albert, the Devonshire teenager who forms an unbreakable bond with a horse called Joey at the outset of the First World War.
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