Robert Carlyle was outraged to be offered the "most vile, disgusting" role he'd ever come across.
Robert Carlyle was horrified by a script
The 'World Is Not Enough' actor admitted he still gets offered a number of villainous roles but there are limits to what he is willing to do on screen, and he was left particularly horrified by a recent script he was asked to look over.
He told The Guardian newspaper: “I still get offered my fair share of [villains].
“A couple of days ago a script came in and it was the most vile, disgusting character I’ve ever read. I said to my agent, ‘How dare they send that to me!’ ”
Asked if it was to play a serial killer, he added: “No, it was worse — to do with kids. There’s certain things that you just don’t want to do.”
The 62-year-old actor recalled sitting next to Ray Winstone at the premiere of his pal's movie 'The War Zone' and told of his friend's unease when it came to a "terrible incest scene" with his on-screen daughter.
He said: “I could feel he was dying.”
But Robert insisted playing Adolf Hitler in 2003 mini-series 'Hitler: The Rise of Evil' was "different".
He said: “That’s a different kind of thing, a historical thing. That was just six months of mentalness.”
The 'Trainspotting' star had a brief role in Danny Boyle's 2019 movie 'Yesterday' - in which a struggling singer becomes the only person to remember the music of The Beatles - as an older John Lennon and he admitted it wasn't the first time he'd been asked to play the late 'Imagine' singer.
He said: “I love John. I’d actually been asked to play him three times as a younger man and I always turned it down because it was just too much.
“But that notion of bringing him back, just for a couple of minutes. Danny gave me the script and said, ‘I’m not going to tell you what it is. Just read it all the way through.’ ”
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