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.

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

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.

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that character and you have to represent that character well and I think it's just an evolution there. Using the accent and speaking the lines with the accent in fact opens the door to who the character really is.

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