I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that sense. But if you write him a one-line question, he'll write you a three-page answer.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.