Ralph Fiennes

'I try not to be, but I’m very controlling'

His performances in The Master Builder and Richard III enraptured the critics. Off stage, Ralph Fiennes is no less intriguing. The Best Actor winner tells Charlotte Edwardes about finding Shakespeare in Trump and why he doesn’t want ‘a picture-postcard’ life

24 November 2016

If Ralph Fiennes was a character in a play, these tiny details would have weight: his iPhone screensaver is the graveyard where his father is buried, his bedroom walls are exposed brick, he orders a plate of spinach with his burger and chips but leaves it, the first three buttons of his shirt are undone. When he enters the room, dressed for the weather in a smart check coat, he stands stock-still so that I’m forced to walk all the way to him to shake his hand. On stage, would that indicate shyness or control?

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