 Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years. |
| No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout. |
| In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. |
| Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body. |
| The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since. |
| As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place. |
| When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there. |
| Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable. |
| I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself. |
| Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it. |
| But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles. |
| You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person. |
| I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah. |
| Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest. |
| I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. |
| There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want. |
| In reality, for me every role is completely different. |
| So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake. |
| I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake. |
| I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs. |
