As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.