When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!

Kate(Henshaw-Nuttal) was superb. The same for Stella(Damasus-Aboderin) and, of course, Jeta and Jumai(Joseph). They can work anywhere in the world. I think you can put Jeta and Stella on a plane and fly them to London or to Los Angeles to go and work.

As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.