NEW YORK – Hugh Dancy was walking down the street, minding his own business, when he landed his first acting gig.
At the time, he was a teenager in boarding school in the south of England and had recently been sent to the school’s theater because he was getting into trouble — someone’s idea of punishment and community service. Dancy says he liked just hanging out there and he must have made a good impression.
“A few months later, quite literally, I was walking down the street and this older kid at the school said, `Oh, you’re going to be Ariel in my production of “The Tempest” next year,’” Dancy recalls. “I was cast on the street. It’s never been so easy since.”
