Finney, Albert

Actor Albert Finney once said in an interview that he sifted the many plays and film scripts that he was invited to act in by just reading the beginning and end. If the characters were the same at the end as they were at the beginning he assumed that not very much happened in between. Only if the characters showed development did he bother to read the script in hill, expecting then to find some dramatic action. 

Sean Connery did not eome from the same stable of British actors who would later become international film stars from the late 1950 s and the 1960 s, such as Albert Finney, Peter O Toole, Alan Bates and Tom Courtney. They came from a British Theatre wMeh had eertainly gone tMough a renaissance with the Angiy Young Man plays, particularly those staged at the Royal Court Theatre. Eaeh of these actors would become headline actors in international films fiom the early sixties onwards, whether in David Lean s epic pictures such as Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. ZMvago or in transatlantic successes such as Far From the Madding Crowd or Tom Jones. None of these actors, however, were ever really... 

Soderbergh, S. (Director) (2000) Erin Brokovich [Motion Picture] with Julia Roberts and Albert Finney, Universal/MCA. 

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