It is perhaps unfortunate that for most filmgoers their abiding memory of John Hurt will be of a monster bursting out of his ribcage in Alien.
7.30 the next morning Hurt was in costume and in front of the cameras at Shepperton Studios.
Perhaps the problem was Hurt never seemed ambitious enough, coveting few roles and chasing even fewer scripts.
The drama department aside, Hurt despised his schooling, where he suffered at the hands of the senior master, who turned out to be a serial abuser.
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