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Q&A with John Hannah - Radio Times, April 2000 |
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The star of Rebus shares his views on TV and discusses his career as an actor.
RT: What are you currently enjoying on TV?
JH: I love The Simpsons. Homer reminds me so much of my dad.
What is your favourite radio programme?
Radio 4's Just a Minute is excellent. Clement Freud is brilliant. He has a great dry sense of humour.
What is your first memory of TV or radio?
I was hooked on American dramas when I was about seven, like Banacek.
Whose TV job would you most like?
I'd like Alan Hansen's job, so I could be paid to go and watch lots of football matches, and all I'd have to do is talk about them.
Which TV programme would you like to get rid of?
All the daytime confessional talk shows. They're patronising, condescending and pander to the lowest common denominator.
What's your favourite childhood show?
The High Chaparral - what a great adventure that was every week.
What is your all-time favourite TV programme?
Cheers. It's the only show that always makes me laugh all the way through. I also like Frasier. They're both great comedies.
As a child, what did you hope to grow up to be?
Big.
Who would you like to play you in a film of your life?
Me - I'm the right age. I know the story. I could do it.
If you could live in a soap opera,which would it be?
None of them. I don't watch any.
Complete this sentence. "I wish…"
…I was back in my bed - I've been working long days.
What would be your first act as world leader?
I'd cancel Third World debt.
Can you quote a line from one of your reviews?
I did a play with the Royal Shakespeare Company in which I was dressed as a woman. A critic in The Independent wrote, "He has hands like hams and a chin like Desperate Dan's."
What would you be doing now if you hadn't become an actor?
Probably working on a building site.
What would you most like to change about yourself?
I'd like to have hair like Hugh Grant - I've always liked that boy's hair.
What's the best piece of advice you've been given, and by whom?
When I left my job as an electrician in Glasgow and started in show business, my pal Tommy Byrne said, "It's not about them and us any more", which was great advice because it allowed me to trust my instincts about the sort of work I wanted to do and not be beholden to anyone else's idea about what I should do.
What is the strangest piece of fan mail you've ever received?
After I made the film The Mummy, a woman wrote a very funny short story about the character I had played. I thought it was strange, but quite sweet that someone cared about my character enough to write about it.
What's your pet hate?
People who push on to the London Tube while passengers are trying to get off. It drives me insane.
What worries you most about the future?
Not knowing what it holds - though that's also the best thing about the future.
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