{"id":2205,"date":"2019-01-26T01:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T01:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2020-02-09T18:45:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T18:45:04","slug":"actor-and-author-scott-alexander-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/slovenia\/actor-and-author-scott-alexander-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor and Author Scott Alexander Young"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I first visited Piran in 2004, it wasn\u2019t quite the tourist hot spot it is today. But a quiet <\/em>place. Call me old-fashioned, or just old, but I liked that, still do. However what I also like most about Piran is that it\u2019s so picturesque. There\u2019s a sense of history, but a comparatively peaceful history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How did you first get into the acting business?<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Twice. Once at age 16, when I got picked up by a professional theatre in my New Zealand home town. Sadly, they fired me within a year. The artistic director told me \u201cyou\u2019ll never be an actor\u201d.<\/p>\n

Over two decades passed before I tried acting again, when friends in Budapest convinced me to read for a part as KGB spy in TV mini-series The Company: which was being shot here. I got the role, and 11 years later, have appeared in over 25 TV series and feature films. Recent roles include Red Sparrow, The Terror and Emerald City. Lots of them, such as Red Sparrow, are \u2018bit\u2019 parts – but not all! I have certainly played some interesting and wildly different characters: From more Russian agents, to a Medieval henchman, from a New York publisher to a Kiwi Doctor; from the grubbiest cook in the British Royal Navy to a Steampunk butler. I am a pretty good mimic and try to be a trouper<\/em>: one who doesn\u2019t complain or hold things up.<\/p>\n

Which film projects have been most exciting to work on?<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Well, any day on a film set is a good day for a jobbing actor! But if I can show off\/name drop for a minute, since going back into acting, I\u2019ve played in scenes with, for instance, Jennifer Lawrence, Adrien Brody, Charlie Hunnam, Chris O\u2019Donnell, Alfred Molina and many more. Naturally, the more important the character the more challenging\/satisfying a role is. The money helps too! Best single pay day<\/em> I ever had was 30,000USD for a Samsung TV commercial, (which never seemed to be shown anywhere – I cried all the way to the bank). But in terms of quality material and well, screen time, I not long ago finished on a new feature film called Curtiz. It\u2019s a movie about<\/em> a movie. In this case, we\u2019re behind the scenes of Casablanca, the 1942 classic, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. I play Hal B. Wallis, who was the film\u2019s producer. I love that era in cinema \u2013 and menswear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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