The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

I quite enjoy the lines on my forehead because they show my life. That’s my history and I like to see that in other people. Like this wrinkle is due to some girl who broke my heart. I don’t want to escape it in any way.

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

It's such a terrifying thing when mobs of people get together and persecute foreigners.

I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.