Happy Birthday: Hugo Weaving

Hugo Weaving

Born: April 4, 1960 in Ibadan, Nigeria

I’m ‘of the world’. There was a time when I thought, ‘Oh, I must go back to England. I feel English.’ Then I went and the longer I was away, the more Australian I felt. Now, I’ve come back here and I don’t feel entirely Australian. But I certainly feel like this is my country. This is where I live and this is where I want to work.

One of the first things that made me want to be an actor was listening to Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. I was intensely moved by it. I think I was about nine – I went to see the ballet. That’s what made me interested in Shakespeare.

I think films have a limited ability to change the world, but that doesn’t mean you don’t stop trying. You do what’s right for you, make the films you believe in, talk about the issues you believe in. The bigger the risk, the more chance you’re going to be crucified, but you have to execute your beliefs in any way you can. In the end [‘Cloud Atlas’] has something to say about love and hope and believing in something. It wants to tell us that individual choices can come to mean something universal.

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