My music tastes are often 20 years behind.

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

I wouldnt be the same actor if I couldnt do theater.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.