I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

I play the sort of character who would sell his grandmother for career advancement, something I've come across a lot with actors.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.