There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you've never read before, you explore things, and generally you meet experts in lots of fields and you get to absorb that information and make it look like you've done it for 20 years.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

When you read the poem, you wonder, what might Grendel have been? Could it have been a person that was turned away? Someone that was disfigured or deformed? Like everything else did, it came from somewhere. It's really exciting, and not knowing is part of the magic and mystery.

I've been trained by a two-time world champion kickboxer, who's local to where I come from, and who is really just there to keep me fit and healthy while I'm shooting.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.