I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

I love playing sport.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.