I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.