The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

Abs are for people with no friends.

If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

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 wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

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.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.