Even At Drama School If There Was

The Worst Thing That An Actor Can Do Is Go Into Any Project With A Lack Of Respect For The Material. You Can Have An Opinion About It, But You Have To Respect Yourself In Doing It.

I Think Enjoying Each Other In A Creative Way Is Usually A Result Of When You're Doing Something That Might Be Problematic - Might Be A Little Difficult To Uncover. I've Done It Once In A Stage Production; We Came In For Two Days And, Just As An Experiment, The Director Had Us Reading Each Other's Roles. You Hear Another Voice Interpreting A Line That Maybe You Were Having Trouble With. It Can Be Very Helpful. But We Weren't Really In The Kind Of Situation Where That Was Necessary.

I Think, Because Of My Background, Which Is Slightly More Exotic Than The Average British Actor, I Think, I Sort Of Occupied This Little Niche Quite Early On Of Playing The Foreign Guy. It Started Way Back At Drama School, I Played An Eastern European Heavy, I Played The Russian Mobster. And I Have Done All Those Different Ethnic Roles, And I Think It's Partly Because Of My Look, I Think I've Got An Adaptable Sort Of Nondescript Ethnicity, Which You Can't Quite Pin Down, But It's Enough To Kind Of Get A Flavor Of Something.

When I Look Back On My Career - If That's What It Is - It Looks A Bit Like A Crazy Quilt, And I Think It's Just Really Because, When One Job Has Finished, I've Never Really Been In A Position Where I Had Three Or Four Options.

You're Suspended Sixty Feet Up In The Air, You've Been Up There For Three Hours, And All The Shot Requires Is That You Have To Sort Of React To Getting Punched In The Head.