Sam Heughan opened up about his time at drama college a Glasgow's Royal Conservatoire when he was branded a 'unhealthy actor'.
The 41-year-old star is now finest recognized for his function as Highland warrior Jamie Fraser within the on-screen adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels, alongside Caitriona Balfe.
Heughan, initially from Dumfries-shire, had large success throughout his time on the Royal Conservatoire, after performing Outlying Islands and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer - regardless of lecturers doubting his performing skills.
In a current interview with Sq. Mile, the Scotsman revealed he first thought he would possibly succeed at performing when he was in college.
He mentioned: "I don’t suppose you ever suppose you’re going to succeed. Even now.
"There’s all the time that query behind your head: oh my God, what if I by no means work once more? I definitely by no means really feel like I’m on the prime of the sport: you all the time really feel like you may be higher at one thing.
"I suppose the primary time I actually thought I can do that was at drama college. I used to be s**t at drama college. I used to be instructed I used to be a nasty actor.
"After which in my second 12 months I performed Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. I bear in mind someday in rehearsal, earlier than we had been onstage, I realised: 'ah, f** I can do that.'"
Heughan opened up about these powerful moments at drama college in Scotland earlier than, telling the Completely happy Unhappy Confused podcast: "“My first 12 months at drama college, my performing coach took me to 1 facet after my first time period and mentioned, ‘You may’t act,’ and I assumed, ‘I’ll simply proceed then.’
"It was a classical drama college. The entire a part of this course of is breaking you down. However I feel that was all the time additionally type of true. It was about confidence.
"At drama college, that’s what it’s for. It’s to fail as effectively. It was truly my first play I did out of drama college. The theatre director there taught me lots.”"
The Outlander actor has come far since these days after graduating in 2003, as no one would dare name him a nasty actor after capturing hearts throughout the globe as Jamie Fraser.
He's even giving again to his previous college, as a way to assist college students out.
Chatting with journalist Josh Horowitz, Sam mentioned: "My former drama college, I made a decision to create a scholarship for 2 college students to pay their charges all through their years at drama college.
"But in addition I created the Write Begin Competitors simply to encourage all the scholars there to possibly suppose a little bit exterior the field.
"I simply observed in my profession it’s not simply performing. There are all these different alternatives or creating your individual work.
"Particularly throughout COVID but additionally if you end up an unemployed actor and also you’re sitting ready for the cellphone to ring, which was a very long time for me, it's a must to begin making your individual work and in addition collaborating with different folks.
"The competitors winners on the inaugural 12 months this 12 months is a extremely attention-grabbing story by some filmmakers who need to do a play, but it surely’s all set in a nuclear submarine."
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