Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring something else out in you. You're not having to fake that or imagine that. It's there. It becomes as much an act of something you bounce off as the other people you're working with.

Every film has challenges and all of us are doing it together, all the cast is doing it together so you keep each other motivated I guess and keep each other in check.

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in.

Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.

Keeping an open mind is always important.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.