Jared Harris: ‘Dad knocked out an Irishman then brought him round by throwing Guinness in his face’

Ahead of his new film Brave the Dark, the star of Mad Men and The Terror (and the son of Richard Harris) answers your questions about his favourite pub, feeling seasick in Hamlet and playing John LennonYou seem to have a predilection to play real-life characters who die prematurely. Who would you like to play who lives to old age? NeilHVWell, I don’t know if that’s true. Captain Crozier [from The Terror] didn’t die, and Lane Pryce [from Mad Men] wasn’t real. I would love to play [the 19th-century US president] Ulysses S Grant. His history has largely been written by southern US historians and so his achievements have largely been denigrated. But his campaigns are taught in all the military academies around the world. Despite a pretty disastrous presidency, he still managed to [sign a] Civil Rights Act – and he destroyed the Ku Klux Klan.When the civil war broke out he sold firewood by the side of the road to try to put food on the table for his family. Eight years later, he was president. It’s the kind of quintessential American success story, but history doesn’t regard him that way. Continue reading...

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