“There were words I’ve never used before, and I was tripping on them,” Rhys explained. <\/p>\n
“At the same time, it was this wildly familiar thing that I got to do. The whole thing was surreal. <\/p>\n
“And then you go, I can’t voice Harrison Ford!” <\/p>\n
Rhys was asked if he ever spoke to Ford about taking on the role. <\/p>\n
“No. I’m too scared,” he replied.<\/p>\n
In terms of his Welsh idols in Hollywood, Rhys said David Niven, whose mother was Welsh, “was always so quietly self-assured and calm and said the right thing, even when a naked person ran behind him at the Oscars”.<\/p>\n
“I just wish I could be that person, and be gracious and effortless,” he said. <\/p>\n
He also put Richard Burton from Port Talbot “on a par with Niven”, in terms of being an inspiration. <\/p>\n
“But because he was the first to be very, very un-Welsh, which was arresting and inspiring,” Rhys said, explaining “un-Welsh” referred to Burton’s rise from obscurity to the height of fame and taking Hollywood by storm. <\/p>\n
“To me it was like, ‘wow, we’re allowed to be that’.”<\/p>\n
The Emmy Award-winner also told the podcast a “next echelon” Oscar win still had “allure to me”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“There were words I’ve never used before, and I was tripping on them,” Rhys explained. “At the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-742220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}