Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.

I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.

I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.

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

It was wonderful to be able to play a character who had so many colors and who was able to play comedy, to play incredibly vulnerable, which he did a lot of the time, to play the love story, and to play the relationship with the son, which is quite unusual. That's a gift to me, as an actor.

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.