My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

I did 40 voices for Chris Wedge, the director of the first film, before coming up with the version we used. He was hard to please, I don't know why. I gave him really slow talking voices. then I thought perhaps Sid could be an Indian sounding sloth. To find out more about my character, I watched footage of sloths. I discovered that the food they store in their pouches rots and ferments and half the time they're drunk.

I had a whole new respect for directors.

I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

Pablo Escobar is one of the great stories of all time. It's a bizarre, dark version of success.