It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.