Did that sense of responsibility affect, in any way, the idea of going to drama school?
BOYD: I can’t remember the actual thought process I went through, but as the time came close to leaving school, I just felt as though I should get a job. A chance of a job came up, working at a printers as an apprentice, a print finisher, and it’s a four year trade and a good trade. A good trade is what you look for, growing up in our kind of working class background, and I just thought that that was probably what I should do. Then, if I wanted to act, I could maybe do that after. IGNFF: Essentially make it into a hobby… BOYD: Yeah, and I didn’t even make it a hobby, because as soon as I started working I stopped all acting. I didn’t do any for the six or seven years that I worked in a printers. IGNFF: Could you visualize doing that the rest of your life? BOYD: No. I think when I was doing it, I kind of thought that I could, you know? When I was doing my trade. But then, when I finally started working… I think when I was doing the trade, it was always, “Four years,” you know, and t
