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.

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.

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.

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

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.