My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

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.