Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

I think the glue that held Fringe together was the relationships.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I suppose, when you start up in acting, you hope to be given challenges, and you always have dreams about the things you could do and couldn't do, but normally we get pigeon-holed a little bit, as we go on in our careers.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.