The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
My heroes were all in the theatre.
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
I love playing sport.
We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.