Britain's Timothy Spall 'bewildered' to win best actor at Cannes

2014/05/24 22:58:20 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

Cannes (France) (AFP) - Britain & #039;s Timothy Spall on Saturday claimed the best actor prize at Cannes, nearly 20 years after he had to miss the festival because he was diagnosed with cancer. Spall described himself as & quot;like a bewildered 16-year-old & quot; after scooping the prize for his role as British Romantic landscape painter JMW Turner in director Mike Leigh & #039;s historical biopic. The actor had been due to come to Cannes in 1996 when Leigh & #039;s & quot;Secrets & amp; Lies & quot; -- in which he starred -- won the Palme d & #039;Or but was unable to do so after being diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukaemia and being given just days to live. Earlier in the day, he said, he had been on holiday on a boat in Holland & quot;with my hand rammed up a pipe & quot; fixing something when the phone rang and he was instructed to come back to Cannes urgently.
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