It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger.

Weirdly, when I was in drama school my accent probably got stronger because of that sense of identity when you leave home and go to somewhere where there are loads of people from different places. Holding on to being Welsh and where I was from was a real crutch for me.

I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.

I think drama school really teaches you how to annunciate; you're conscious that people might not understand you if you speak too fast and too Welsh.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

The music is mine. Theres nothing to hide behind. Thats where you see the real person.