Nothing is more terrible,” he tells News. “I was really anxious when I had to perform a reading in a church when I was very young. People knew I wanted to be an actress because I was in drama school, and ‘this will be good’ was said as I was approaching the lectern, and I froze.
The “idea of speaking as myself” has always been “a horror” for him, even though he is able to enter his fictional and actual personas.
He claims that even portraying self-assured personalities may be nerve-racking since it fosters an internal conflict between it.
Naturally, I become quite self-conscious if I’m left on my own, so I have to figure out how to fool myself.”
In the movie The Diplomat, Sewell portrays Kate Wyler’s estranged ex-husband, who is Kerry Russell’s character as the US ambassador to the UK.
