The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

Ive just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.

There's always something ridiculous happening on the set, especially when people get tired because of the long days.

That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.

I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.