I love doing kids' films.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

People in America and Hollywood are very good at pronouncing my name, to begin with. Socially, they're very adept at listening to somebody's name and repeating it, cleverly in the first couple of sentences so the name sticks to begin with.

I love doing kids' films.