When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare doesn't require you to have a doctorate in his language or whatever to understand him. It just has to be directed and played right. It's all about scale and presence and getting these huge, epic stories across.

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.