I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Towards the end, one of them [children in "The White Queen"] was older than I was in real life.

I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

Also I don't want to refer to myself as Maximilian. You'd have to win an Oscar or become mind-numbingly wealthy or hit 50. It's like smoking a cigar, you know what I mean? You can't be a young guy and do it.