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\n\tNot too long ago, Noah Wyle was out to dinner when an elderly couple approached. \u201cWe love the show,\u201d the exchange began. Then came the request: \u201cI just had knee surgery,\u201d said the woman. \u201cWould you mind taking a look?\u201d According to the Pitt<\/em> star, she rolled up her pant leg right there, and Wyle assessed the incision. After all, he\u2019s played a doctor for well over a decade, first on ER<\/em> and, now, on the Emmy-winning HBO Max drama. That Wyle has no actual medical credentials didn\u2019t seem to matter. <\/p>\n

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\n\tTurns out, being conflated with the characters one plays is not uncommon, at least for the TV stars gathered at THR<\/em>\u2018s Drama Actors Emmy Roundtable. That group, which also included Charlie Hunnam (Monster<\/em>), Richard Gadd (Half Man<\/em>), Paul Anthony Kelly (Love Story<\/em>), Kit Harington (Industry<\/em>) and Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager<\/em>), discussed this and much more on a late April morning at The Georgian Hotel.<\/p>\n

\nWhat\u2019s the craziest thing you\u2019ve all done to land or prep for a gig? Charlie, did I hear you spent time in solitary confinement for a gig?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nCHARLIE HUNNAM <\/strong>I didn\u2019t go in a prison. I just was the pain in the arse that refused to leave the set while I was shooting a solitary confinement scene. I said I was just going to stay in the cell for the duration of the shoot, about 10 days.<\/p>\n

\nYou slept there?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Yeah, and peed in a bucket. It was just a complete nightmare for everybody involved as they tried to light the scene and paint the walls and stuff.<\/p>\n

\nTOM HIDDLESTON<\/strong> What was that for?<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> An adaptation of Papillon<\/em>. Obviously an important sequence of the book is that solitary sequence, and I just wanted to go for it.<\/p>\n

\nRICHARD GADD<\/strong> Did it have any impact on your [points to head<\/em>]?<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> I think so. It became lonely and weird in the best way, and it allowed me to own that section of the film \u00ad\u2014 like, own the space. It became a bit of a battle between me and the crew because often the crew owns the space until you arrive and then you take over and we do our thing. But it felt as though, if you were living in solitary and your entire existence resided in that small box, the sense of ownership you would have over that would be pretty extreme.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> What\u2019d you do for food?<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Starved myself. I got down to about 144 pounds.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> Wow, that\u2019s pretty skinny. Respect, man.<\/p>\n

\nAnyone else go to wild lengths?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> I worked early on with a brilliant British director called Joanna Hogg. She was making very intense, quiet, but complex stories about families and family dynamics and [for Archipelago<\/em>] she asked us to live in the house that the family was staying in. So, we\u2019d be in this house for real and then the crew would turn up in the morning. Obviously, I wasn\u2019t alone, and I wasn\u2019t starving myself, so it was remarkably less challenging in that way, but there was this quality of, like you say, ownership, the way you go into the kitchen and put the kettle on \u2013 the naturalism that I guess we chase was just there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Anything you can do that limits the amount you actually have to act. (Laughter<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

\nKIT HARINGTON<\/strong> I think I inadvertently gave myself a leg up with the character of Jon Snow, but it was completely unintentional. I\u2019d gotten into a fight the night before the [Game of Thrones<\/em>] audition. One that I hasten to say I lost. This guy gave me a black eye, so when I turned up to the audition, I looked a bit rough. And they\u2019d probably watched a million tapes of all these different actors, and something like a little mark, they say, \u201cOh, that guy with the black eye was good.\u201d So, whoever that guy was, thank you.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> When you were further along in the process, did they ever mention the black eye?<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> They might have. Maybe the next job I really want, I\u2019ll get beaten up again.<\/p>\n

\nPAUL ANTHONY KELLY<\/strong> Maybe it can work for you.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> Baby Reindeer<\/em> was all pretty extreme reenactments, but I also shrunk down for it. I was 68.8 kilograms [roughly 151 pounds], when I shot that. When I\u2019m acting and you turn up in your own body, or they put you in a shirt, a bit of gel in your hair and you go to set, I\u2019m always like, \u201cUgh, I just kind of feel like myself.\u201d [But with that,] I felt so frail and vulnerable, and before you know it, you feel like you\u2019re a different person. And when I did Ruben for [Half Man<\/em>], I was at my heaviest, 109.8 kilograms [242 pounds].<\/p>\n

\nNOAH WYLE<\/strong> That\u2019s a big jump.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> Oh yeah. But I\u2019m big into that \u201cfeel character in your body first\u201d \u2014 the way they walk and carry themselves.<\/p>\n

\nHow were you received differently as you moved through the world \u2014 and how did that inform the character?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> Oh, it was crazy. You\u2019d go down the middle of an airplane and everyone would simultaneously put their heads down as you walk past. Or even as you go through a checkout, and you\u2019d be paying for food and people would be flustered or anxious. It\u2019s crazy how much people see bigness as a symbol of something to be feared.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> I had an experience like that. I was staying at the Four Seasons when I shot Ed Gein<\/em>, who has a pretty extreme look, like a classic serial killer haircut, and I was incredibly skinny. Then I\u2019d go home to the Four Seasons, which was just kind of a weird vibe but also lovely. And I got into the elevator at about half past midnight with this very well-to-do older couple, and I gave them a big smile and said, \u201cOh, hello. Hope you had a nice night.\u201d And they just sort of looked at each other and looked down, and I thought, \u201cMan, rich people suck. Can we all not just be nice to each other?\u201d Then I got to my room and [realized I] hadn\u2019t washed my makeup off. I had a big blood streak down [my face] with the serial killer haircut. I just terrified these two people.<\/p>\n

\nPaul, before <\/strong>Love Story<\/em><\/strong>, which has catapulted you into the zeitgeist, you spent a decade hearing no. How close did you come to walking away?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> I was ready to give it up days before I got the callback. A year ago today, I had no idea what I was doing. My wife and I had to evacuate [post-fires] and move to where we live now [Portland, Oregon], and we were like, \u201cWhat do we do?\u201d I was a model at the time. It kept the lights on, but it wasn\u2019t fulfilling. And we were planning on starting a family, which we\u2019ve now done, and I\u2019m Canadian, so we were like, \u201cDo we just go back there? The health care is free. The education system\u2019s good. We have family there.\u201d Several days later, I got an email for a callback for John F. Kennedy Jr., the same day that we found out we were pregnant. Thirteen years of no, of getting close to things, it was great practice. But, yeah, it\u2019s wild how quickly things can change. The success of this show was just like strapping yourself to a rocket. I never thought it would grow the legs that it did and start running at the speed it has, but I\u2019m so here for it.<\/p>\n

\nWho else has seriously considered walking away from all of this at any point?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> Many, many days.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Every day, right?<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> There are at least four or five days on any given job where I\u2019ll walk off set and go, \u201cThat\u2019s it. I\u2019m done. Thank you. I\u2019ll do something else.\u201d I\u2019ll go have a sulk, and then I\u2019ll pick myself up again and do the job.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Then you have that one good day, and you\u2019re like, \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll do it for another week.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> I don\u2019t know about you guys, but I\u2019m always looking for that plan B and I can never find it.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> I got into the industry through comedy and there\u2019s no feeling like going for 10 years and still performing to about five people every night. You\u2019d trek around the country. I\u2019d be staying in Glasgow, and I\u2019d drive to Birmingham in an evening, only to perform to about three people to silence, and then drive all the way back.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> That\u2019s a long drive home.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> Yeah, and I\u2019ve still got the car. It\u2019s a 2007 Skoda Fabia and I still drive it because it was with me through all that pain. But God, those drives were just existential, like, \u201cWhat am I doing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\nDid you ever flirt with walking away, Noah?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> I never wanted to do anything else, but there were many times where I felt the industry was quitting me. I couldn\u2019t figure out how to be relevant or what my place was. When you have a very front-loaded career like I did \u2014 ER<\/em> was such a tremendous success so early on \u2014 it spoils you into thinking that that\u2019s going to be a constant or a given. When that proves not to be true, you have to do that work that allows you to get validation from something other than the external, which has been something I\u2019ve grappled with forever. When I\u2019m working, I\u2019m at my best. So, I try to work whenever I can.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> Forgive me for not knowing, how old were you when you were doing ER<\/em>?<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> I got that job March 17th, 1993. I was 22. I did it from 22 to 38, 260-some-odd episodes.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> Wow.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> Yeah, a really significant chapter of my life. Not until The Pitt <\/em>has lightning felt like it struck that way again.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> When you do a series for that long, is it like clockwork? Or do you still have to find the inspiration every day?<\/p>\n

\nWYLE <\/strong>I find there\u2019s more infinite complexity in repetition. A film, it\u2019s so finite. You\u2019re telling one story, and then those relationships only last for three or six months. TV affords you this wonderful opportunity to build almost a surrogate family, and everybody throws in together, and that energy is what I\u2019m absolutely addicted to.<\/p>\n

\nYou\u2019ve said your <\/strong>ER<\/em><\/strong> co-star George Clooney taught you how to be famous in a healthy way. What did that entail?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> Take your work seriously, don\u2019t take yourself seriously; keep a sense of humor and humility about you; be on time, be professional, be personable; recognize that you\u2019re an ambassador for this show wherever you go, and that there aren\u2019t any more private moments to be had for you publicly. To a certain extent, you are accountable, and you should live your life accordingly. Also, start thinking of your life anecdotally because you\u2019re going to have to chunk it into talk show stories. Like, you better start looking at what was funny about the dog puking on the bed last night.<\/p>\n

\nPaul, you were taking notes from the <\/strong>Heated Rivalry <\/em><\/strong>stars on how to handle overnight stardom. What did you learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nKELLY <\/strong>Those guys are on a crazy ride. This is my first show and foray into all of this. Being in the public eye, no longer having private moments in the public, you have to really watch your p\u2019s and q\u2019s. They were a great template for me to glean from. Obviously, it\u2019s different, but the structure\u2019s kind of the same.<\/p>\n

\nThere\u2019s discourse surrounding things like your chest hair on the internet. It\u2019s wild. What\u2019s your comfort level with all of it? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> Oh, heavens to Betsy, not the chest hair! [Laughter.<\/em>] No, people can think whatever they want about my chest hair \u2014 I\u2019m keeping it. And that might have been part of me getting the job too. They were looking for a real \u201990s man, and I just seem to fit the bill there. There has been a lot of discourse, but there\u2019s also been an overwhelmingly positive reception to the show. And I got the job three weeks before we started filming, and I\u2019m Canadian, so I had to learn a different speech pattern, bulk up a little bit \u2014 not as much as [Gadd], I\u2019d love to do something like that, though \u2014 read everything and work with an acting coach. And for a show set in the \u201990s, I didn\u2019t do a holding cell, but I didn\u2019t have a cellphone.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON <\/strong>Nice.<\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> I kept it as quiet as I could and lived within that world to keep it truthful. It was the best six months of my life, just being off-grid within the thing.<\/p>\n

\nThe rest of you have experience navigating fame and fandom. Any tips to offer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> I\u2019m still learning within this business how to just be myself, and that being myself is OK and probably desirable. You started ER<\/em> when you were 22, I did Game of Thrones <\/em>at a similar time, but I spent 10 years during my 20s in the odd state of not knowing how to deal with any of it. I\u2019m quite a shy person at heart and trying to pretend not to be shy was very difficult.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> I\u2019ve found people will idealize you and demonize you, and neither picture is accurate. It\u2019s healthy for me just to keep all of it over there and trust yourself and the people who know and love you.<\/p>\n

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\nCharlie, I\u2019ve heard you say the hardest part of the process for you is ending a project. What is that reentry like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> My life makes sense when I\u2019m working. I know who I am most readily when I\u2019m able to put my machinery to work and I\u2019m part of a community with a unified focus. It requires us to work 80 hours a week and, often, to travel, so we\u2019re away and disconnected from family and our life. So you come [having] sort of let everything else get neglected and have to reenter your life. There\u2019s always this uneasy process of accepting or rejecting the parameters of this life that I\u2019ve created for myself. I come in and I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, right, these are my clothes,\u201d because I\u2019ve been living out of a suitcase. Friends\u2019 lives have gone on without you because, inevitably, those relationships get a little neglected. But it\u2019s saying goodbye to the character that I find very difficult.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE <\/strong>Yeah.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM <\/strong>And my wife is really fed up with it. We\u2019ve been together 20 years, and a few years ago, she just said to me, \u201cDude, do what you need to do, exorcize this stress and grief out of your system because when you get home, you\u2019d better be ready to see me.\u201d So I always just take a few days after I finish a job. When I finished Ed Gein<\/em>, I definitely did not want to carry any of that character back into my regular life, so I drove up and went to his grave and said what I needed to say and then got on a plane home.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> My wife sends me away.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Does she?<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> The last two seasons of The Pitt<\/em>, especially, because I\u2019ve finished them a basket case. She sent me to a beach for four days just so I didn\u2019t have to be around anybody for a little while. You\u2019re going at 120 RPMs, and then it\u2019s just done and you have no place to put it. There\u2019s no decompression as you\u2019re coming up from those depths.<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> With Industry<\/em>, I had my kids with me. They\u2019re both very small, and I had to do some pretty drastic stuff in the fourth season. I\u2019d come home, and they didn\u2019t give me the choice but to get out of the character. I can\u2019t be a prick to my kids.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> Yes, kids are wonderful.<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON <\/strong>But I hear what you\u2019re saying because that post-job thing can be really disorienting. You can turn into a different version of yourself that\u2019s not the character or you. You\u2019re just this grumpy prick.<\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> It\u2019s overwhelming, especially when you\u2019re stepping into someone else\u2019s skin and you\u2019re living like that in a different period. I now have a new child, so that\u2019s where I focus everything. We didn\u2019t have it after we wrapped, but it was that changing of gears and a whole new focus. It was like, \u201cOK, now I have to step into pre-dad mode.\u201d It was like prepping for another job, the actor dad.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> The longest job of your life.<\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> Also the best.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> And you probably had hundreds of thousands of emails and texts after not having your phone all that time.<\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> Well, I got a new phone, and I don\u2019t turn that one on anymore. (Laughter<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> Because you played this character who lived and died not so long ago, when you wrapped and you said goodbye to him, would you say that there was a deeper sadness there? You portrayed him so beautifully.<\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> It was so recent, and I think you did him an incredible justice. But when you said goodbye to him, was there a kind of profound, \u201cOh, okay, bye mate\u201d?<\/p>\n

\nKELLY<\/strong> Yeah, thank you for asking me that. I still haven\u2019t said goodbye. I think there\u2019s a lot of qualities of John that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. One of the things I learned about him is that he always wanted to be an actor and it\u2019s the same thing that I always wanted to be. In that, I take him everywhere I go because it was him that got me here. So, I never really get to say goodbye to this character, and I think that\u2019s a beautiful thing, but there is that coming back and being Paul again that was a bit of an adjustment. You\u2019re just like, \u201cWhat do I do now?\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAudiences often conflate actors with the characters they play. Noah, what happens when you\u2019re on a plane and someone asks if there\u2019s a doctor on board?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> I just flew back from New York, and as I\u2019m sitting down, everybody\u2019s looking at me, and I said, \u201cNobody have a medical emergency. I will only pretend to help you, but I won\u2019t save you.\u201d And this one guy goes, \u201cYou never know, you\u2019d be surprised.\u201d I go, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON <\/strong>You probably could.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> My family will tell you I\u2019m delusional in thinking that I know way more than I do.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> You must have picked up some stuff.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> I\u2019d rather people think I knew how to heal them than know how to fight them because I\u2019d imagine that it\u2019d be much harder to walk through life having that reputation \u2026<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM <\/strong>That has come up a couple times.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> I was talking to them and thinking about you.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> I\u2019m a pretty cowardly individual, truth be told, and I really panic at the prospect of having to have any sort of physical altercation. And I got broken into once at 3 o\u2019clock in the morning by a guy who was literally twice my size and I\u2019d been working night shoots. I had a separate structure from my house, and I had my cat on my knee and it was 3 o\u2019clock in the morning, I was just learning lines, and we both heard something in the backyard. The cat bolted, my wife was asleep inside, and I thought, \u201cFuck me, I don\u2019t know how to handle this situation,\u201d and then [his Sons of Anarchy<\/em> character] Jax Teller went, \u201cDon\u2019t worry bro, I do.\u201d There was a little machete on my door frame that had been there since I moved in, so I grabbed it and because I\u2019ve done so much fake fighting in my career, I knew how to swing this machete but not actually hit the guy. So I swiped at him, and he fell backwards, and I just said, very calmly, \u201cYou got 10 seconds to leave or they\u2019re never going to find your body.\u201d He left, lickety-split.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> Amazing.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> It was my one heroic moment of my life.<\/p>\n

\nKit, I suspect there was a decade there where people just assumed you were Jon Snow?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> Yeah, that was a weird decade. And Jon Snow was almost defined by his goodness. He\u2019s morally perfect. The hero. The trouble I had is that I didn\u2019t feel anything like him, yet everywhere I went, people treated me like I was. I felt almost in competition with the character, which then sort of spiraled. By the end of the show, I really wasn\u2019t very well. It\u2019s taken a while to move past that.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON <\/strong>And yet maybe a part of him is in you, otherwise you wouldn\u2019t have done it and it wouldn\u2019t have been so loved.<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> There\u2019s a way of playing that character as just heroic, and I don\u2019t know if I intentionally did this, but [the way I played him] was heroic but tortured. I think it was just part of me coming out in the character, but it seemed to [connect] with people, which was interesting.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> A very wise man once said to me, \u201cThe only meaning in life is to reside as a good object in the minds of others.\u201d And it\u2019s not small that you [do]. That\u2019s something you did for them.<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> It\u2019s something that I\u2019ve tried to never take for granted, the gift that you can give to people. When children have come up to me, and they\u2019re so excited because they\u2019re looking at Loki, I want to live up to whatever they can see, because actually it\u2019s a gift to them. So, for all those people who loved Jon Snow and watched it season after season, it\u2019s not insignificant that you reside as a good object in their minds.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Maybe that conflict is built into the design, like this paragon of virtue that they chose [is] the kid who showed up with the black eye.<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> Yeah. They cast Game of Thrones<\/em> brilliantly. Whether conscious or not, they picked actors who had some sort of conflict that the character had. I always felt that the actors on that were quite similar to their characters in a strange way.<\/p>\n

\nGADD<\/strong> I remember walking through a supermarket two weeks after [Baby Reindeer<\/em>] came out, and my face was on the front page of all these newspapers, and it was, \u201cRichard Gadd struggling with the weight of fame.\u201d I was like, \u201cHow do they know?\u201d I felt like people were coming up to me in the street almost looking for answers because of the raw honesty of Baby Reindeer<\/em>. Like, \u201cHey, what do you think about this? And what do you think about that?\u201d Suddenly I was in a dangerous position because I never wanted to be the harbinger of good advice. I mean, look at the story based on my life \u2014 I never took good advice myself!<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> I get a bit of that with the reaction to The Pitt<\/em>. It\u2019s intense the way that it hits certain people. It\u2019s more than just, \u201cI like your show.\u201d It\u2019s, \u201cI lost my mother last year,\u201d or, during COVID, \u201cI had a really hard time.\u201d I have a tendency to \u201cAw, shucks\u201d my way through life and deflect that type of thing. I don\u2019t take it in very easily, but you feel like you\u2019re dishonoring the intensity of the connection if you don\u2019t stand there and acknowledge it, but that\u2019s not organic to me.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> I was at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner in 2016, and there was a party where Joe Biden walked in and made a beeline, shook my hand and was talking to me about the general election in the U.K., but with the sort of transference that I was a vetted member of the intelligence community. He was the vice president at the time, and I thought, \u201cThis is not an interaction I expected,\u201d but he\u2019d watched The Night Manager<\/em>. The following summer, I was sat at a lunch with the head of the British Armed Forces who told me things I\u2019m sure I shouldn\u2019t have known because he\u2019d seen The Night Manager<\/em>. I\u2019m not actually a spy. I\u2019m an actor.<\/p>\n

\nWhat are the wildest fan interactions that you\u2019ve had?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> An actor\u2019s ego is a fragile thing. I\u2019m always amazed at the amount of interactions that start well. They\u2019ll go, \u201cOh my God, Jon Snow!\u201d \u201cYes, I did play Jon Snow.\u201d Then they go, \u201cWhere have you been?\u201d \u201cWell, I \u2026\u201d and you start listing off your CV. \u201cNot seen that one? No?\u201d Then they go, \u201cWow, you are much shorter than you are on TV.\u201d You walk away going, \u201cI feel terrible now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> I was at a French caf\u00e9, and the waiter was incredibly kind. I could see that he was quite excited to be serving the coffee and pastries. At the end, he said, \u201cI just have to say, I\u2019m such a big fan. I loved you in Prometheus<\/em> and Shame<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> Oh God \u2026<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> I just had to go, \u201cThank you.\u201d No, not me, sadly.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> I was at an airport, and this guy goes, \u201cYou\u2019re Keanu Reeves?\u201d I said, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not.\u201d He goes, \u201cI got you. On the down-low, Keanu.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> I was in a taxi recently, and the guy thought he recognized me, so he asked me what my name was. I told him and he decided he was going to google me while he was driving.<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> Oh God.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> He decided to play the first video that came up over the speakers in the taxi. The title was, \u201cWhatever Happened to Charlie Hunnam?\u201d It was just this catalog of all of my failures.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> Keep it at arm\u2019s length, Charlie.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> I got out just as it said, \u201cAnd then came the catastrophic failure that was King Arthur<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> Just rude.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Then this guy came up like, \u201cOh bro, you are so important to me.\u201d I thought, \u201cThis is what I need right now!\u201d Then he said, \u201cYeah, I watch every episode of Vikings<\/em>.\u201d [He\u2019d been mistaken for Travis Fimmel.] But to [Wyle\u2019s] point, I was going on a talk show the next day.<\/p>\n

\nWYLE<\/strong> Perfect.<\/p>\n

\nHUNNAM<\/strong> Turn this grand humiliation into talk show gold.<\/p>\n

\nHIDDLESTON<\/strong> I don\u2019t know if this happens to you guys, but I\u2019ll be at a petrol station and somebody will quietly say, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry, has anyone ever told you that you look just like Tom Hiddleston?\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cI get that a lot.\u201d \u201cBut you look exactly like him.\u201d I go, \u201cI know, it\u2019s weird, isn\u2019t it?\u201d You buy your coffee and you pay for your gas and they go, \u201cYou look like him. You really do.\u201d And then I\u2019ll literally be driving off\u00a0and they\u2019ll be like, \u201cIt is you!\u201d<\/p>\n

\nHARINGTON<\/strong> But you feel like such a dick going, \u201cWell, actually, I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThis story appeared in the June 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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