I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

When someone like Steven Soderbergh asks you to do a film you know you're in good hands. You know it's going to be slick, and it's going to be intelligent, and it's going to have a kind of style to it, and I would probably have done anything to be really honest.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.