I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I love whiskey and haggis. I can't get enough of either.

I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.

I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.