UK actor Toby Stephens has loved his personal triumphs on display screen – finest identified for his position as James Bond’s youngest ever villain Gustav Graves reverse Pierce Brosnan in Die One other Day (2002).
And the profession of his mom, Dame Maggie Smith who died in 2023, is widely known as one of many 20th century’s nice legacies – on theatre, stage and display screen, though two roles got here to outline her to youthful generations, these of Professor McGonagall within the Harry Potter collection, and the acerbic Dowager Duchess within the long-running TV collection Downton Abbey.
Now Stephens has shared why, regardless of their particular person successes, mom and son made the choice very early on to not unite on display screen. He explained to The Times of London:
“We each thought it will be a bit naff. I’d have liked to — however it will have been such a factor.”
Stephens admitted he had fought towards barbs of nepotism early in his profession, because the son of Smith and director Robert Stephens. He mentioned:
““Positively, throughout the occupation, there was a component of ‘properly, that is occurring due to who your dad and mom are… It was crippling for some time. It was: how do I stroll the road between not simply speaking about it endlessly, or not seeming like I’m being obtuse by not speaking about it in any respect? I believe it induced my mum some embarrassment, regardless that she knew I needed to do my very own factor.”
He added:
“However then you definitely get to a degree the place you go, I imply, I’m simply so pleased with her. I’d completed sufficient to know that’s not why I’m working.”
Extra not too long ago, Stephens has appeared in Amazon’s teenage spy collection Alex Rider, the place he performed billionaire villain Damian Cray.
