I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.

Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.