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Actor Mathew Horne looks back: ‘Gavin and Stacey was a big turning point in my life. People would confuse me with Gavin in real life’Mathew Horne dressed as Captain Pugwash at primary school, and recreating the same photo today
The photo doesn’t entirely show it, but I was really pretty around this age. My eyes were very much the main feature of my face. Adults would often comment that there was something special about them. That sparkle has now completely vanished, but my two-year-old son has inherited it. I get to see what all the fuss was about, and also feel deeply, deeply jealous of him.
I was no newcomer to the stage – I was playing King Herod by the age of five – but it wasn’t until I was nine and my primary school hosted some live performances in the assembly hall that I realised how much I loved acting. I wrote and starred in a comedy sketch about a man watching the World Cup; the joke being that the doorbell kept going, and every time he went to answer it his team would score a goal. I’d do a funny version of an angry reaction every time he missed one.
was a big turning point in my life. At first I found it really strange when people would approach me and confuse the character of Gavin with who I am in real life. But after a while, I realised I had done my job; the Essex characters in particular are meant to be quite naturalistic, and I had made Gavin as authentic as possible. Being on the show was, and still is, an absolute gift. When I got the job, I called James Corden to say thank you.
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