I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did.

I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.