Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.