One of the things that I’ve learnt from stand up is that confidence is basically 90 per cent of how to do it and it’s the same for acting. Obviously most actors at the RSC have been to drama school – is there a part of you that wishes you’d gone to RADA?I’m actually very glad to have come at it from stand up. Underneath his blokey defences, Dad is insecure but just ploughs on,… At one point he realises: ‘Dennis is right and I’m wrong’.That recognition that your son is better than you could have hoped for because of his own choices is about as Shakespearean as it gets! I’m sort of in my own story where a man has to overcome – – buzzword for 2020 – his own toxic masculinity. So that makes me think I’m not parenting correctly – ‘Oh my God, oh my God I don’t know what I’m doing!’, which I think most parents have. Being in Stratford and not being able to see them as they live in London it has really felt hard. Your character Dad is a rufty-tufty truck driver with a soft centre – is that something you identify with?Not sure about rufty-tufty! But I do work away from home a lot and I have two children – a boy of 12 and a girl of eight - so they are use to my absence. Photo Mark Williamson Rufus Hound takes a seat at the RSC offices Stand-up turned actor Rufus Hound talks to Gill Sutherland about his career, DIY, politics, and being a dad - onstage in #RSCBoyinDress and in real life Rufus Hound plays Dad in the RSC's The Boy in the Dress.
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