I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

Some people would say I've made it now.

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.