I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going form job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.