I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.