The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.

I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.