Rylance of the Slams: Greatest actor of his generation plays the worst golfer of his | karlkwin
star Mark Rylance says he was drawn to the idea of playing Maurice Flitcroft, an amateur golfer who blagged his way into the British Open despite never having played a full round before, because “he was a mystery to me”.
You might call it self-belief, you might call it self-delusion. Either way, it allowed Flitcroft, who didn’t take up golf until late 1974, and had never played on a course until he sauntered onto the grounds of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, in July 1976 , to carry on despite the ridicule and the disapproval he faced.“There’s a kind of Don Quixote aspect to him,” observes Rylance. “He just sees the dream, he doesn’t see the obstacles.
as the best stage actor of his generation. With an Oscar , three BAFTAs and a Screen Actors Guild award to his name, his film and TV peers clearly rate him, too.he thought Tom Hanks was terrific, but he left the cinema “utterly depressed. I thought I was dreadful.” Even at 62, with more than 40 years of work and accolades behind him, there remains “a very strong critic inside myself. I’m friendly with him, but he always wants more.
Twenty minutes on Zoom is not much of a basis for psychoanalysis, admittedly, but I wonder if this isn’t also part of what allowed Rylance to identify with the man he plays inIn the opening scenes, Flitcroft is being interviewed on US television – while the British golfing establishment saw him as an unruly and unwelcome upstart, the Americans loved his chutzpah – and is reflecting upon his childhood in Barrow-in-Furness, a shipbuilding town in England’s north-west.
I ask Rylance, was that Scottish sojourn a curse or a blessing for Flitcroft? It certainly opened his eyes to possibilities and allowed him to dream, but it also meant he no longer fitted in. “He had a very strong sense of justice, Maurice,” says Rylance. “He saw it as an injustice for other people to define anyone by their terms, and the class system was part of that injustice.
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