Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that.