Quotes & Trivia

Trivia

• --- David is an avid fan of Folk Music
• --- his first name is Rowan
• --- he plays Bass Clarinet and Clarinet
• --- he is a talented artist
• --- his dad is a Canon at Salisbury Cathedral
• --- his mum is a professional musician
• --- he was head boy at Bishop Wordsworth's school
• --- he loves green wine gums
• --- he was once kicked out of Salisbury's Cathedral Close when rehearsing pagan rituals for his open air production of The Wicker Man

Quotes

On playing Hugh in All The Little Things We Crushed (June 2009)

It’s empowering to play a character who’s so inspired, who’s so keen on an idea that he’s prepared to attack the fundaments of society, to attack rules and hierarchies. It’s quite thrilling and addictive. Because of my heightened awareness of environmental issues through this play, I voted for the Green Party for the European election. I think it’s worth putting green issues at the forefront of our thoughts.

On filming Trinity rowing sequence (Oct 2009)

I cannot begin to tell you how painful this sequence was to film. It was shot over 4km of continuous rowing - two lengths of Dorney Lake! 'Never work with Animals or Children'; more like 'Never work with Children, Animals or Directors who are in automated craft whilst you have to power your movement physically alongside them..." Sounds like I'm telling people not to do Porn!

On The Pillars Of The Earth (July 2010)

"Oh you have no idea, it's brilliant. I get a horse, a sword. I get to set fire to pretty people. I do so much horrible stuff."

“If you look at all the good guys in this film, they get to kiss girls and look handsome,” says Oakes, 26. “But I got to fight with swords, set fire to people and I got to do it wearing leather, looking medieval with gruesome facial hair. I’m hoping I get some hate mail.”

'Promises Kept' - great scene, remember actively avoiding Ian with the sword, but him wanting it pushing right up against his adam's apple!'

"It's easy to be nice - it's much harder to make people hate you!"

On Twitter (July 2010)

I love Twitter; it's such a random thing. It's so peculiar what you're prepared to tell people for no apparent reason. It's fascinating."

On Matthew Macfadyen (Oct 2010) from here

Well, I think with the most recent adaptations of Robin Hood and Three Musketeers they [the viewers] are tuning in purely to watch the wonderful Matthew Macfadyen who was in both of them and in ours aswell. But yeah, they love historical epics, and they love Matthew Macfadyen. And I love historical epics. And I love Matthew Macfadyen.

On the real Borgias (Nov 2010)

Oakes, the young actor playing Juan, offers just one example: The Chestnut Ball, a party organized by Pope Alexander VI, who hired all the courtesans in Rome to surround a field of chestnuts and pick them up … without using their hands. “If we showed that,” says Oakes, “people wouldn’t believe it.”

In response to Emily Rapoport's article (Sept 2010)

My High School History Teacher told me that the Queen Mother was a Robot... never quite took his advice to heart in the same way!