It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.

Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.