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Элеонора, а статья вот. По моему, тут уже пробегала на нее ссылка, но пусть будет под спойлером.

As he enters his suite at London’s Dorchester Hotel, actor Luke Evans grins like a Cheshire cat, walks up to me, shakes my hand vigorously and greets me with an enthusiastic, ‘Shw mae,’ which is a convivial way of saying ‘how are you?’ in Welsh. Not the usual greeting I receive from actors, admittedly, but as we both hail from Wales, it is entirely fitting, especially as we are here to discuss his role as Welsh-accented Bard The Bowman, the hero of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies.
“It was a real gift being able to use my real accent for the part,”he laughs. “Others had to learn it and it’s not easy, but 
they did a stellar job.”
It was because of his accent that I first met Evans four years ago. We were in Cannes for the premiere party of director Stephen Frears’ 2010 movie Tamara Drewe in which the actor excelled as robust odd job man Andy Cobb.
Ordering drinks at the bar, we recognised each other’s accents and, both fish out of water, had a lengthy chat. He explained he had grown up in South Wales, won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre and, before he knew it, was on stage singing and dancing in London’s West End in musical productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon and Piaf. His big break came when he played Vincent in the enormously well received Small Change in the Donmar Warehouse.
“I was 28 and I’d heard about this play about two Welsh boys,” recalls Evans. “So I wrote a note to the casting director and begged him to see me and I got the job. Small Change was a pivotal moment for me as I was on stage acting and not singing.”
Six feet tall and enviably handsome, the affable thespian was soon cast as Apollo in the 2010 remake of Clash of The Titans, and followed this up with roles in The Immortals, opposite Mickey Rourke, The Raven with John Cusack, and then Aramis in Paul WS Anderson’s The Three Musketeers. I last I saw him in 2011.

He told me that he was off to New Zealand to film The Hobbit the next day and might not be back for a while.
“The Hobbit has been an incredible experience,” says Evans, 35, dressed in a simple crew neck sweater and jeans. “I remember being on location at the Polaris River [New Zealand] and a farmer had given his two fields over to the shoot and there were 27 caravans, a tent to feed 700 people in one sitting and five or six helicopter landing pads, which had been built to bring Peter [Jackson] and crew in from the mountain tops. It was incredible. I love film sets – they are magical, and this was the most magical.”
For many of the actors in The Hobbit this magic was achieved at a cost. Some, such as Manu Bennett who played the fierce Azog, had to endure five hours of make-up and prosthetics every day before they even ventured on set.
“I had the easiest job of all because I was actually playing a human,” Evans beams. “I didn’t have to do funny walks and I didn’t have a name rhyming with my brother’s name.”
Yet watching the films (Evans also played Bard in the second instalment of the series, The Desolation of Smaug), there seems to be a huge amount of physical action that must require serious preparation?
“There were more physically challenging moments in the films than I anticipated,” he remarks. “Peter [Jackson] is a task master, likes a lot of takes and knows exactly what he wants but sometimes changes his mind, so you’ve just got to keep physical and keep going until he’s got it.”
Unsurprisingly, Evans, the son of a bricklayer and a cleaner who went to a tough state school, had to master archery, which entailed hours of target practice alongside the vast squads of stuntmen entirely conversant in the form.
“I did all the training and I really enjoyed it,” he states fondly. “There was a healthy competitive streak between all the lads using different bow and arrows. It wasn’t so much fun carrying a 10-foot bow whilst being chased over rooftops by a dragon, though.”
To be sure, Evans had his work cut out, but even though he seems to have taken it all in his stride, was he ever worried?
“No, you can’t think like that,” he stresses. ”If you do, then that’s it and it’s the end of you playing roles like this. There were moments when I was standing on rooftops knowing I would have to slide down them on cables and I’d never done things like this before; but you have to think, I can do this! I have to prove to them I can! That’s part of the job. Part of an actor’s remit is to never say no!”
Seemingly, the most difficult part of filming a film like The Hobbit is not dealing with the things you can see but the things you can’t. Much of the action involving creatures from The Hobbit writer J RR Tolkien’s imagination entails actors envisioning such beings whilst working against 
a blank blue screen, which will be filled in later.
“That was a challenge dealing with something like Smaug the dragon,” he recalls. “When filming I didn’t have the remotest idea or inkling of what Smaug was going to look like. Pete just gave me some very vague dimensions and I had to work off that. In my head I had a complete image and had to imagine how scary, how big he was going to be and how I was going to relate to this giant creature and what I was going to do to him. It can be tough.”
But Evans isn’t one to moan. He knows that, as one of the stars of one of the biggest movies this millennium, he is a very privileged man.
“I’m not going to lie to you,” he says. “This is a really exciting time for me. I just starred in Dracula Untold and it’s a bit of an honour to be the new Dracula on the block – and I’ve just finished shooting High-Rise, which is based on a book by JG Ballard and is directed by Ben Wheatley.”
A landmark work of fiction, High-Rise, written in 1975, tells of the residents of a luxury tower block that, replete with swimming pools, schools and a supermarket, seems the perfect environment. But after a series of power cuts and neighbourly feuds things rapidly degenerate into full-on violence between the residents who (as often happens today) are divided over the floors according to their wealth and social standing.
“I really wanted to be in that film and be directed by Ben so I went after it big time,” enthuses the actor, who stars with Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons.
“I mean, they don’t make films like that anymore. People are scared to make a movie about that book. It’s a very dark, dystopian and complicated story that looks at class distinction. In the block the poshies, the entrepreneurs, the doctors, the dentists are at the top and then at the bottom live the journalists and media types – which says a lot about Ballard! I play Richard Wilder, the agitator – or that’s what they call him – but he’s the sanest person in the building. I’m fortunate to play him.”
Evans, who cites fellow Welshman Anthony Hopkins as the actor he most admires, is, after The Hobbit, on the verge of what some might call mega-stardom, but he still feels somewhat melancholic.
“It’s the end of a chapter in my career and it’s the same for everyone else involved,” he sighs. “It’s bittersweet in a way. I’m really excited to see what Peter has done but obviously it’s a sad moment as it’s the last one of these films.
“There was a lot of banter – the old boys having a laugh with the youngsters – making fun of each other about how you get through 15 hours day in prosthetics and all that. We hung out a lot. I miss everyone and we all feel very connected to New Zealand and Peter and everyone who was involved. But I guess the biggest person who is going to find it hard as the chapter closes is Peter.”
Our interview over, we drain our cold cups of tea, look at each other for a second and laugh.
“Listen,” he says, his infectious smile taking over his face. “I haven’t really had any acting training at all. I started off singing and that’s how I got on stage. I learnt this business by using what I’ve learnt from life. To be honest, I’ve blagged it all, really.”
 

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