Jul 14, 2026 · 57 min · 12 segments
Tom Brittney first rose to global prominence with his multi-season turn on the celebrated British series "Grantchester," where he built a devoted international following through a performance defined…
Tom BrittneyGuest
Peter RinaldiHost
[piano tinkles] Do you have a typical way that you like to begin your preparation process when you get a new character?
I mean, with this, with this one, with The Westies, that was the, I think the deepest I'd gone in sort of research.
It's funny, I went back to drama school kind of stuff that I was taught, which for years-
I was so against kind of stubbornly not using any of the tools that I'd been taught-
And then, and then I went back on this one to really going back to, like, what, what body does he have? Like, this guy's-
How does he move, and, and how does he look?" Like, you know, I look different in this.
[piano tinkles] Do you have a typical way that you like to begin your preparation process when you get a new character?
I mean, with this, with this one, with The Westies, that was the, I think the deepest I'd gone in sort of research.
It's funny, I went back to drama school kind of stuff that I was taught, which for years-
I was so against kind of stubbornly not using any of the tools that I'd been taught-
And then, and then I went back on this one to really going back to, like, what, what body does he have? Like, this guy's-
How does he move, and, and how does he look?" Like, you know, I look different in this.
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