From Bond to Indiana Jones to Game of Thrones, Julian Glover has starred in some of the biggest franchises ever. As he appears with Russell Crowe in Prizefighter, the great actor spills his secrets
K,” says Julian Glover. “We talk to each other for an hour. And you extract what you want, as long as it’s nice.” We’re sitting in a cafe in Barnes, London, and it is all a little surreal. Glover, now 87, is so vividly recognisable from The Empire Strikes Back, in which he played villainous General Veers, that it’s like teleporting back to the 1980s.
Glover came by the role when he made a short film with Hookings. “I thought, ‘This boy really knows what he’s doing.’” Glover must have done 30 or 40 shorts, he says. “You do it for expenses – if you’re lucky, they pay £200. I consider it part of the actor’s duty, if he’s got anything to pass on.” Laudable, of course, but it doesn’t sound like the whole story. “Kids are very nice to me,” he adds. “By definition, they’re going to be nice, unless you screw up.
He made this discovery in the army. “I was on the officers’ training course, bottom of the whole class, relegated for two weeks. I thought, ‘This won’t do. I’m supposed to be an actor. I’m going to act the part of an officer.’ For a fortnight, I did that, bossing everyone around, hoping I was being sympathetic but not tolerating people’s mistakes. And I came out top.”
Graves is Glover’s godfather and his Balearic literary salon was the first place Honor vamoosed to after Claude’s philandering, when Julian was four months old. This is where she met her second husband. “A lovely, lovely, lovely man,” says Glover. “He was divine. And they went on to produce my brother,He learned at school, in particular while singing Nightmare Song from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe, what it was like “to hold an audience in the palm of your hand. I could feel it.
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