I'm not an instinctive actor.

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

You can't say to someone with a brain like Morse, This is the way you do it, regardless of the circumstances; this is the way it is done.

There is no more final end than death

I'm not an instinctive actor.

We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.