American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.