Tommy Jessop opens up on working with Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington
ok.co.ukActor Tommy Jessop has appeared in Line Of Duty, in a feature-length film opposite Nicholas Hoult, onstage as the title character in Hamlet and in various documentaries.
Yet for an actor with Down syndrome the opportunities still seem few and far between. Which is why, with Will, his filmmaker brother, Tommy has decided to make his own movie – and is taking viewers along for the ride in this new documentary Tommy Jessop Goes To Hollywood . “I always wanted to be a performer and it wasn’t that hard to get into the industry – I found it was a bit too easy.
But it’s like a light switch, it goes on and off. Like a lift, it has its ups and downs,” says 38-year-old Tommy. Read More Related Articles Claire Sweeney says working with Dame Maureen Lipman is an 'acting masterclass' Will adds, “Our earliest photo of Tommy in costume is him as a very small boy dressed as a snowman.
So it looks like the acting goes back pretty far. “Tommy might say that entry into the industry wasn’t so hard, but I think we need to put that in the context of the fact that there was one role, and Tommy got it. “Where for another actor you might expect that to lead to other roles, for Tommy, actually it didn’t for a while.” The hour-long documentary sees Tommy on a mission to show that actors with Down syndrome can play superheroes.Tommy has appeared in high-profile TV shows, in Line Of Duty he played murder suspect Terry Boyle.
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