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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Rich Pelley

Charlie Vickers: ‘Tom Cruise cheated at freediving – that’s the headline’

Charlie Vickers wears a black top and jacket, posing against a dark green backdrop
Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power star Charlie Vickers: ‘When I proposed, I thought, “Love of my life and all that, but I’m not going to kneel in the mud.”’ Photograph: Photo Image Press/Rex/Shutterstock

You once played Basil Fawlty in an amateur student production of Fawlty Towers at Queen’s College in Melbourne. How amateur was your Basil Fawlty moustache?

It was terrible. It was real but it was definitely coloured in – I still have holes in my beard. I’d also shaved my head, so if you look at the early promo posters, you can clearly see I’m wearing a wig. Our theatre was closed so we had to perform in a circus tent in the middle of winter, on an oval in the university grounds, which was all very Fawlty Towers.

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