Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.

I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

It's much more fun to be ugly.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.