Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go