I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

I remember thinking, 'I'll audition just once and if it doesn't work out I'll never think about it ever again.'

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.

I really wanted to get out of England.

Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.