I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

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

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.