John Hurt interview, Ireland 2002

John Hurt looks back at his younger days and talks about how he always had the acting bug. He also recalls meeting Samuel Beckett.
Actor John Hurt talks to Pat Kenny about growing up and the influence his Anglican clergyman father had on him,
He was a good performer, I might say, a very good preacher - short, very abrupt, clear, clean, all of that.
By chance, John Hurt was befriended by two Australian women who he met in London and credits them with being the people who set him on the path that led to a long and distinguished acting career,
They looked after me and decided that they would go and get the forms necessary for RADA. The rest is history.
John Hurt was fortunate enough to meet his hero Samuel Beckett although it was only once he remembers the occasion fondly and was surprised to find him reading the racing pages.
This episode of The Late Late Show was broadcast on 22 February 2002. The presenter is Pat Kenny.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

What a most real, natural brilliant actor and very finest human being John Hurt was, Like John, I would have loved to have meet with Samuel Beckett

[@finolaomurchu8217]

Oh I agree with you. He was a great actor.☘️👍

[@Occident.]

John Hurt was one of the greatest actors that ever lived!

[@user-ir3ob9nk2e]

I love John Hurt, end of story.

[@Tenshihan-Quinn]

Bloody interviewer never let John finish speaking!

[@iamhannahjasmine]

Sir John was a different man after marrying his fourth wife Anwen so I was instinctively looking for when they met and got married. This was pre-Anwen. That explains the vibe. He was more laid back and sweeter after she entered his life. Before that he was more complicated as a person

[@HAPPYTHELEAF]

His role as Richard Rich in the movie, A Man for All season's was brilliant, however 20 odd years later his 2 sons are bums in a small Irish city ...

[@amandeepv]

And then he found out latter he wasn’t Irish and died not long after that