That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

You feel quite strangely secure [doing any kind of series]. It's the opposite of how you're supposed to feel doing a movie.

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

There is a price, which you have to pay. You are 24 hours on the job, if you go out in public.

I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy.

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

It's awkward doing it with anybody, but it's like Twister.