With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.