Richard Armitage and Shaheen Baig on Chekhov, class and Emily in Paris
Richard Armitage likened the progress in his acting career to learning to drive, when he delivered his RTS Midlands Baird Lecture last month. He talked about the “ridiculous amounts of preparation” he put in to his one line on Boon and three lines in Casualty, but these put him in good stead for later roles.
He explained: “Learning to drive a banger is not such a bad thing because when you get behind the wheel of a Ferrari, you know what to do.