The Tribune has an interview with Matthew Macfadyen from when he was in Pasadena earlier this month.  Read the whole article HERE.

Matthew Macfayden likes the uncertainty of the acting life

Published: January 28, 2013 Updated 1 hour ago

By LUAINE LEE — McClatchy-Tribune News Service

PASADENA, Calif. - British actor Matthew Macfadyen thrives on the erratic lifestyle that acting requires. The man who is bringing us the resolute Inspector Reid on BBC America's "Ripper Street" and who played the aloof Mr. Darcy in "Pride & Prejudice" and Oblonsky in "Anna Karenina" insists he likes not knowing where his next job is coming from.

"As soon as I know I have six months work I feel hemmed in a bit," he says, seated at a round table in a meeting room of a hotel here.

IGN sat down with Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn to talk about Ripper Street, especially the overarching throughlines.  (Spoilers are in the article!)

For his part, Macfadyen simply feels that they were operating by a different moral compass at the time, though it was a period of great advance. “I think that time was so interesting because so many things were happening then,” Macfadyen says. “There were huge advances in medicine and science, so they would have found themselves to be very cutting edge.”