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It’s down to Will power

RAFE Spall has stayed in some dodgy digs in his time, the last one being a motel in America which made him feel "a bit itchy".

That he’s laughing about this while being interviewed in a five-star hotel is a sign he’s going up in the world.

With a starring role in Anonymous, a new movie questioning the origins of Shakespeare’s plays, a hit Channel 4 series, Pete Versus Life, and a part in Ridley Scot’s forthcoming Prometheus, Spall can probably wave cheerio to the kind of dives that would make Barton Fink’s nightmarish Hotel Earle look like the Four Seasons.