How did Dylan Moran get involved with “The Actors”?
Dylan was suggested to me by Susie Figgis, the casting director. I wasn’t even sure that I wanted to see him, because I thought we’d need a really good actor in that part, and I wasn’t sure that he had ever really done any acting. When I screen-tested him, he came in and he just was that character. Dylan has that thing where it’s like he’s just landed on the planet. He has a wide-eyed kind of innocence about him, sort of a childlike quality which makes him very vulnerable. I think the audience identify with him. They like him, they root for him, and I knew that he was right for that part. I thought that Michael Caine was perfect for the other part, because he always struck me as having quite an angry energy, and he just suited that part perfectly. But he doesn’t have that energy when you meet him, and he’s actually very pleasant. But his persona always seemed to me to be quite spiky somehow. What was the atmosphere like on set? It was a bit like being in school and you’ve got a free cl
