I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

It's always hard but the reality is, especially in my case, that every time I go to work I have to do it so it's become part of the job. It's an extra challenge but it's also quite often another extra tool that you have to really think consciously about getting into the character. So while it does require more work, it's maybe even an advantage to a degree because it forces you to switch, to consciously have to jump into and out of the character.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.