Though Nicholas Hoult considered quitting the acting game after finding fame on “Skins,” he stuck with it and eventually became an A-list leading man. But years earlier, after his first big movie, “About a Boy” with Hugh Grant, he may have wondered if he had what it took to make acting his full-time career. Even after the film was a hit, Hoult decided to attend theater school and sharpen his skills.
In the aftermath of the film’s release, Hoult enrolled in the Sylvia Young theater school as a teenager. In addition to acting lessons, the school also put him through the ringer with singing and dancing — which he claims he wasn’t very good at, despite his ballet background. Before long, Hoult withdrew, realizing he already had what he needed, and the added classes weren’t really what he was looking for. Instead, he returned to secondary school.
Eventually, though, it wasn’t the positive reviews he received from his performances that convinced him to continue acting, but the realization that he loved it. “It wasn’t that formalized training wouldn’t work, he told the Guardian. “But at the same time, some of the best actors I’ve worked with are very instinctive and, for me, the more fun I’m having, the more playful I am, the more I feel I’m probably in the right zone.”
