And as an actor, lots of struggling actors work in bars or serve in restaurants. RS: Well, for me, I think he was a working man. JW: What was your favorite part about playing Tom Builder? That when you go to Canterbury Cathedral and you realize it was built by people just like us that went to work every day and it was an adventure and it took hundreds of years sometimes. And that, for me, is what really fascinated me and what I think is the appeal of it. Across the world-whether you're in a tribe or in the city-it's the same across different ages. The medium of expression might change-the tools they use, the things they wear-but actually what drives people and how people interact with each other is the same and always will be. The day-to-day politics of what drove people don't change. And then people would have their little rivalries and their teasing and who is popular and who is unpopular. realizing the people here who made those bricks would stop for lunch breaks and someone might have a snack that his wife made for him and someone might be making his own and someone would have better quality sandwiches. RS: To me, that was what was really fascinating about the book, and when I was thinking about playing Tom is the idea of looking at old cathedrals and realizing the men who built them.I mean, I'm working in Rome at the moment and I'm walking across buildings that are 2,000 years old and going up close and seeing the brickwork-these tiny, thin Roman bricks. JW: So, now that you've played Tom Builder, do you look at architecture and buildings differently? What fascinated Rufus Sewell about playing Tom So inevitably despite that I became an actor, I ended up having to do the real work, which I resented enormously. The endless stock supplies of that cart coming in at 8 o'clock in the morning, and I couldn't send it away. RS: I'd say what I'd have for dinner every day. JW: What surprised you most about stonemasonry? Every day we'd go in and study, and that was great. I did that with Eddie Redmayne and the other actors around me. But it was really useful, if anything to get to know some of the characters and look at the environment and how they operated with each other and get some blisters.
RS: Well, I studied with stonemasons, which was exciting, basic training and that was really cool-not that, you know, I wouldn't recommend myself to build you a castle or even fashion any kind of stone at all. JW: How did you prepare to play Tom? Did you study with artists before filming? Even though I was aware that a lot of the material I was reading probably wouldn't make it into the finished script, it was incredibly useful. But in between reading the first two episodes and getting the final ones, I read the book and enjoyed it very much. Rufus Sewell: Um no, before, no I hadn't.
Joan Wagner: Before signing on for the film, had you read the book? Rufus reflects on his first impressions of the Oprah's Book Club selection, how being a father influenced his performance and why he'll never look at a classic piece of architecture the same way again. As Tom Builder, a mason with lofty dreams of building a cathedral, Rufus brings the beloved working father from Ken Follett's epic novel to life. In any good period piece, two things are for certain: Good and evil will battle it out until the last sword is swung, and British actor Rufus Sewell will probably be playing one of the bad guys.īut in STARZ's medieval miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (airing in eight parts starting July 23), Rufus' character finally sees the light-and it's good.
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