Martin Freeman at Mousetrap Award 2015
Martin Freeman’s full Mousetrap Awards speech!
“What a lovely honour to be here. Thanks for coming. I know it’s not all for me, but some of it’s for me. [laughs]“I’m quite jet-lagged, excuse me. I’ve just come back from doing some filming, but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. I never miss an opportunity to… pick up an award. [laughs]“I mean, go to the theatre. I love going to the theatre.“I was very lucky. I joined a youth theatre when I was 15, in my local area in Teddington, in the suburbs. It was an open door policy. And this was where I learned almost everything, pre drama school, about how to be an actor and that that might be possible for me one day. I was very lucky in that I’ve been managing to do that for 20 odd years.“So I would like to thank Jamie Lloyd and Rich, our lovely staff director… It was a thorough joy. The hardest I’ve ever worked. And the young people out there – well, everyone’s younger than me here – but people should know, it’s hard work. I never worked harder than I did on Richard III but it was a real pleasure.“It was a honour for us to get so many young people in [to see the show], that was a goal of ours. So thanks for coming and thanks for awarding me this.“I genuinely was more deserving than James McAvoy!” [laughs]http://www.terripaddock.com/martin-freeman-speech-the-exemplary-young-people-behind-the-mousetraps/