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!

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

I'm not getting younger, so there's a commitment to the cause that one has to make

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.

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

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.