Just traveling all the time you gotta keep your teeth clean.
Charlie Heaton
My first job was a commercial for a Swiss insurance company. It was an eight-minute short with a proper story arc, and it ended up getting a spot at Cannes Lions; I was lucky to avoid the commercials where you're their puppet.
I had this crazy trajectory. I went from literally living in a hostel in L.A. at the beginning of 2015 to shooting 'Stranger Things' at the end of 2015.
I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.
I got my awkward years out of the way.
I'm not having to grow up in the spotlight as a 14- or 15-year-old.
They see you as one thing, and you continue to do that. Do you want to play this really awkward, offbeat outsider? Yeah. I can - but I can do other things. It's having people trust that you can do other things, or proving it to them.
I used to play in bands and my dad, he's a big Beatles fan, so I grew up on a lot of Beatles and you kind of find your own way in music.
I was against getting Beats cause I know they're kind of really popular and you know, hey're such a well known brand. But, I ended up buying them and they have changed my life, and the best thing about these is the battery life.
I am an advent Arsenal fan, so wherever I am doesn't matter what time it is, when they're playing I have to get up and watch the game.
I was born in Leeds, grew up in Bridlington.
I'm extremely excited and honoured to be given the opportunity to take on the portrayal of Joseph Merrick in the BBC's adaption of 'The Elephant Man.' This is such a special role and a challenge for any actor.
If you don't know, 'The New Mutants' is like an 'X-Men' spin-off. It was a comic book; Bill Sienkiewicz did it and it was an 'X-Men' comic. It's basically like a separate bunch of mutants.
Prior to doing 'Marrowbone,' I'd done three projects, which were all American.
I'm pretty adventurous, I go out a lot.
I wouldn't say I do that much extreme sport - maybe one day.
I don't like watching horror films. I actually don't. I don't watch horror films.
When something steps in from the work you are doing and breaks into your personal life... you feel kind of vulnerable.
I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.
I seem to have the best onscreen mums.
I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.
I look for a layered character who has problems and issues - which, by the way, we all do have.
That concept is quite universal, looking for love.
A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.
Every time I go somewhere, I'm like, 'This is where I want to be.' And then I'm like, 'But do I want to live here?'
When you're a young actor, you're expected to live a transient life.
I've lived out of a suitcase for four years.
I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got my GCSE's, and at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do.
Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better.
All my friends have always been older than me.
When I see my old mates they will say, 'You're doing well, good on you!' It kind of blows their minds - it blows my mind too!
I sometimes think, 'What am I doing standing on this red carpet?' It's hard to believe. You just tell yourself, 'Just play along and hopefully no one will notice!'
You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.
I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.
