🎙️ Joining @bryonygordon's Mad World podcast, the actor opens up on his difficult education and grieving when real life collides with fiction.⁠ ⁠ Purefoy felt uncomfortable using his real grief as fuel for his character in Fishermen’s Friends. “Because then you feel really soiled. You’re using it in some terrible way, to entertain people.” ⁠ ⁠ “One of the things that you can do as an actor is you can make people feel less alone. Because you’re putting something out there, often a vulnerable thing.”⁠ ⁠ He talks about the bit in King Lear where Edgar comes across his father with his eyes ripped out. “He says it’s the very worst, what he has seen. And then he checks himself and he says: the worst is not/ So long as we can say ‘this is the worst’.” ⁠ ⁠ Purefoy shakes his head in admiration. “Right there, 500 years before Freud, Shakespeare is saying: ‘If you can articulate your pain, it’s not the end of the line. It is only the end of the line when all you are is a howling beast. But while we have the power of articulation, and language, we have hope.’”⁠ ⁠ 🎧️ Read more and listen at the link in bio⁠ ⁠ #podcast #actor #mentalhealth #life