The better the writing, the easier it gets.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in.

Now, people can watch the entire first series over a period that would probably take you a couple of nights.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.