“After working his way up the acting world through shows such as The Bill, Doctors & Holby City, the talented actor that is Ryan Gage went on to become a part of the hit TV show The Musketeers whilst also becoming Alfrid in The Hobbit trilogy!� When did you first realize that acting was what you wanted to do for a living? I was probably about 5 or 6. I've spent most of my life never really thinking I would do anything else. It only struck me how odd that is recently. I consider myself quite a curious person but in that regard I was quite blinkered really.
What was your first major project, and what was that like for you at the time? It depends what you mean by major, one of my first significant acting achievements happened when I was 19 and was at Drama school. It was a short film made with a couple of friends. It couldn't be entered into any festivals or released because we didn't have any of the music licensed, but it was pasted around by a lot of people in the industry. So I sensed then I wasn't wasting my time.
You got to work on Outlaw in 2007, what was that like, and what can you remember from this project? It was a very brief job - I was only on it for a couple of days. I met Bob Hoskins who was holding court in the green room, that was the highlight. I also wrote all of my own lines for the court room scene which you hear me speak but never see me directly in. Lenny James was on that job too who I had known a bit from auditioning several times for his drama Storm Damage about his upbringing in foster care.