Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

I had bags of energy as a kid.