Tom Blyth
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Tom Keir Blyth
Birthplace Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, U.K.
Birth Date February 2, 1995
Ethnicity Northwestern European
Overview English
Nationality British
Career Actor
Color Season Soft Summer
Notes and Motifs
Stars in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Attended Juilliard
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Blyth: "I’ve always really loved the physical transformation part of acting."
Blyth: "I think I liked being someone else more than I liked being myself for a long time, which has changed. Snow is not someone who diminishes himself around other people. Whereas I don’t want to take up space."
Blyth: "You have to have ego and humility at the same time, which is something that I find really difficult."
Blyth: "This happening when I’m 28 is very beneficial because I’ve had so many hundreds of no’s for so many years that someone speaking ill of my performance makes me go, ‘So what?’"
Blyth: "I get a bit camera-shy when I’m playing myself."
Blyth: "You can’t change who you are. It’s easier said than done sometimes. But having good people around you really helps. Even this sort of thing reminds you how important good friends and family are."
Blyth: "I like to start from a blank slate."
Blyth: "Coming to Juilliard was the first time where I felt it was all on my doorstep. I had access to professional work which made me feel like I was part of it instead of on the outside looking in."
Blyth: "It was actually more of an emotional thing than anything else. I was one step closer to being in amongst good work, you know?"
Blyth: "I want people to be heartbroken by it in the way that I was when I read the book. You want to fall in love with him and be absolutely f*cking heartbroken when he breaks bad and becomes his darker self. And we should be able to relate a little bit, even though we don’t want to."
Blyth: "I felt like suddenly I had a skill set that was tangible, or more tangible because acting never is."
Blyth: "For me, there’s nothing more interesting than doing that about someone who I can’t, in my life, relate to. But through the art and the storytelling I get to at least try and understand him a little bit better."
Blyth: "I tried to take up less space so it’s fun to play someone who is really comfortable taking up a lot of space."
Blyth: "People don't really judge themselves morally in the moment. It's not until afterwards that you look back and go, 'Oh shit, I might've done something wrong.'"
Blyth: "I always knew I had a good instinct though, but I didn’t always know how to craft it."