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Talent Management loves new Spielberg smash 'War Horse'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Talent and modelling agency<\/a> Talent Management loves the story of Jeremy Irvine’s discovery almost as much as the film that made it possible…<\/p>\n

When the Cambridge based, unknown actor gained an audition for box office smash War Horse<\/em> he simply didn’t dare to believe that he may actually be offered the role and become an actor<\/a> in a Steven Spielberg film. At the time of the audition Irvine had no previous film or TV experience and his part in a play had been less than inspiring. In a Scotsman.com interview he confessed in good humour: \u201cI was a tree. I had no lines and my main job was to wave my branches. I think I was only there because I was cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old auditioned for War Horse<\/em> alongside hundreds of other actors<\/a> in a process that went on for weeks, before he found the unexpected success that led to his fast-track rise to fame. His experience just goes to show that dreams really can come true for talented people. \u201cAt no point did I think I\u2019d get this part in War Horse<\/em>. My agent would phone me up after each audition<\/a> and the two of us would just say, \u2018Well, this is great audition experience.\u2019 That\u2019s all it ever was. We never said, \u2018God, what if we got this part?\u2019 I wasn\u2019t even getting called back for commercials, so that just wasn\u2019t on the cards.\u201d Little did Irvine know that Spielberg<\/a> was looking for just the qualities he had to offer.<\/p>\n

The brilliant, multi-award winning film director is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying: \u201cWe looked at hundreds of boys for Albert but nobody had the heart, or the spirit, or the communication skills that Jeremy had. I am very accustomed to working with people with no experience; look at the kids in ET and look at Christian Bale who had never made a movie before Empire of The Sun and who now has the sort of career that I think Jeremy could have.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job is to get real people to be themselves in front of the camera. The problem with a newcomer can be that they freeze when they see the camera or imitate the actors they admire and stop being themselves. My job is to return them to what I first saw in them. I didn\u2019t want Jeremy to be a character actor; I wanted him to be the wonderful person that he is today. He did a wonderful job of playing himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irvine has told of his continued state of disbelief in a number of interviews since he gained the part as Albert Murpurgo: \u201cTrying to explain where I am now, you have to start with where I was; playing a tree with no lines in a theatre show. I had been out of work for nearly two years and I was thinking playing a tree was as good as it got. To be in a movie with lines. For it to be a Spielberg film. To be one of the main characters; it\u2019s all beyond my imagination really and I was completely freaked out! When we first started filming some of the actors had to calm me down, put their arms around me and remind me that it\u2019s only a job. There is still a part of me that feels it\u2019s just a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talent Management<\/a> is very happy for this young actor and wish him all of the continued success that he deserves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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