NEW YORK—Talk about suffering for your art. Achieving his acclaimed performance as the masterful British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner in “Mr. Turner” took so much out of Timothy Spall, the veteran actor found himself kneeling down at the artist’s tomb in St. Paul’s Cathedral when it was all over—and crying.
“I just knelt down, had a bit of a weep, and wiped it off on my elbow,” the 57-year-old actor said. “It was quite a journey, you know.”
And I realized my job was to look at this massive explosion of genius and implode it all back in, right back to where it started.
