Tom Wilkinson — British Actor born on December 12, 1948,

Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Wilkinson, Jr.,OBE is an English actor. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, for his roles in In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton. In 2009, he won Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Film for playing Benjamin Franklin in John Adams... (wikipedia)

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.
Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.
I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.
All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.