For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.