14 Things You May Not Know About Jamie Bell

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1. You can trust this guy with your secrets.

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Last year he told Parade magazine:

“If it’s required of me, pretty good. I’m not someone who necessarily keeps secrets, but if someone were to give me something that needed to be held close to the chest, it would be very difficult to get it out of me.”

2. If he wasn't an actor he'd probably be a gardner.

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3. You probably already know, but for those who don't, he has a son with actress Evan Rachel Wood.

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4. He's as blown away by Tavi Gevinson as the rest of us.

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In an interview for Slutever, when discussing youth and accomplishments he stated,

"Right, and then there’s people like Tavi Gevinson… fucking hell, what’s going on there? The younger generation is so much more entrepreneurial than we were. Like ‘I recorded an album; I have my own magazine.’ It’s like, you’re fucking 12! Whereas our generation—well, I can only really speak for myself, but I wasn’t like that. When I hear about these kids who achieve so much so quickly, it kind of blows my mind."

5. He loves to tap dance.

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6. He's never seen Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones.

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7. Thinks Batman is the sexiest superhero.

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The actor admitted to British GQ that, although he screen tested for Spiderman, he thought Batman was the sexier hero,

"Considering I failed at the first one, I don't know. I've never felt particularly connected to Peter Parker, [so] I felt like they made the right decision. I actually can't wait to see the movie - I think it's going to be great. My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman..."

8. One of his favorite actors is Andy Serkis.

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9. Didn't have a chance to get to know his Nymphomaniac co-star Charlotte Gainsbourg before they began filming.

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He told Vanity Fair that he hadn't said a single word to the actress when they immediately began filming their sexually explicit scenes, which made for an awkward encounter later,

"But I swear to god, I really didn’t say a single word to her. I might have said good morning. I did not speak to her at all. And I saw her recently in a grocery store in Los Angeles, totally out of context, and freaked out, I didn’t know what to say. We had that experience, we didn’t have time to get to know each other at all. And she was buying milk, and I was like “What the hell do I say to her?"

10. His style tip, pop the collar on your jacket.

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11. The strangest gift he's ever received was a dead moth.

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12. Admits that he didn't know much about the Revolutionary War before taking the role of Abe Woodhull in TURN.

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He told Interview magazine,

"I thought, "Is this just like some weird amnesia thing? Because I literally don't remember seeing anything in a textbook, or being told anything about it." When I got the script, it was like, "What were we talking about? I don't understand." I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe."

13. His drink of choice is Yazoo banana milkshakes.

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14. He never watches his work.

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In 2013, he explained to The Independent,

"It's because of my upbringing. I was thrown into this environment of competitive dancing, where it's difficult to watch anything I do, because if I do, I'm always thinking, "I could have done that so much better." If I ever am totally happy with my work, I'll worry that I've reached a plateau and it will all go downhill from there."