Certainly For My Father, There Were Great

I Didn't Sound Anything Like Capote At The Screen Test. It Was More Like Bob Dylan. In His Early Years. With The Flu.

When You're Training As An Actor, A Lot Of The Big Work You're Learning Is To Treat Fictional Characters Like Real People. You Don't Have The Problem Of Discovering A Backstory With Real People, But There's Always A Mystery Which Is Common To Both Fictional And Factual Characters. They Are Never Quite The Person You Think They Are.

But I Think The Children Of Actors Share A Certain Pragmatic Approach. One Is Denied Some Of That 'running Away With The Circus' Element Of Being An Actor.

I Teach For The Book Trust, Which Promotes Reading And Writing With Children.

It's Always Very Strange To Have Your Life Dramatized Because It Never Happens Like That. Things Will Be Different.