Lie To Me Scoop

Time Out Chicago published an interview with Tim Roth when the show first premiered. Some highlights are included below.

TOC: How do your sons feel about having Dad around so much now?
Tim Roth: It’s a double-edged sword. [Laughs] ’Cause I’m there, I’m watching. Sometimes they go, “Oh, dear, we used to get away with that.”

TOC: In interviews, when you’ve talked about your career, one word keeps coming up again and again: bored.
Tim Roth: [Laughs] ’Cause quite often you are.

TOC: And Lie to Me staves off the boredom?
Tim Roth: Yeah, at the moment. We’ll see how it goes, eh? [Laughs]

TOC: What’s the worst lie you’ve ever told?
Tim Roth: None of your business. [Laughs] What about you?

TOC: Hey, I’m the interviewer here.

TOC: Another theme in your interviews is that while you often play tough guys, in person you’re quite the opposite. So where does the tough guy in you come from?
Tim Roth: I was quite the bullied kid at school, so somebody who’s a victim of that, you have to recognize when there’s danger around. And I was pretty good at spotting it when it walked into the room or before it actually hit. I suppose having experienced that for many years when I was at school, when I got the chance to play somebody on the other end of it, I knew what I was doing.

TOC: Why did kids bully you?
Tim Roth: Just, you know, plenty of psychopaths in the schoolroom. And I wasn’t a fighter. If you can’t defend yourself, you’re a walking target.

TOC: So you learned to get into other people’s minds.
Tim Roth: Yeah, I did, and I also learned to run.

Time Out Chicago / Issue 203 : Jan 15–21, 2009

To read the rest of the interview, go to Time Out Chicago.

Source: Time Out Chicago