There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.