Luke Evans

The Welsh actor signed a record deal after his critically acclaimed part in Beauty and the Beast. Now he has an old-school singing special coming to the BBC for ...

Like that moment of falling in love with someone, and what it’s like to feel like that control is out of your hands,” he says. But I do love my job.” “You’re joining a very saturated world of love songs, but I wanted to do it,” he says. I ask him about writing love songs, given how private he is — Evans prefers to keep much of his personal life to himself. “If I didn’t open my mouth and sing those songs, then the album wouldn’t get made.” It wouldn’t have been possible were it not for his work ethic, as most of the music was recorded in bits and pieces while Evans worked on film and TV sets. “People were asking me to do things as a singer, not as an actor,” he says. Evans is bashful on the success of the record — “It’s crazy, no? “I should be in an isolation chamber, and come out just to sing.” I don’t even know if any of the bands I auditioned for back in the day were even formed. Evans is 43, and has the proportions of a cartoon lumberjack — framed in this festive corner of his living room, he could be recording a bedtime story for CBeebies. “As an actor, you’re always being a different human being,” he explains.