Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that's key and that's what I've learned from all the great directors I've worked with.

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.