It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.