Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration.