I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.
Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.
Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.
The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.
I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.
Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.
Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years
What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.
On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.
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