I Had To Change The Shape Of

We're Interested By Public Personas And Private Personas, Otherwise We Wouldn't Put On With Actors Rambling On With The Same Kind Of Stuff, Over And Over Again, Saying Variations Of The Same Thing. I'm Always Amazed By How Fascinated People Still Are By Actors Because It's The Same Version Of Events That Actors Describe, All The Time.

They Seem Much Rarer Now, Those Auteur Films That Come Out Of A Director's Imagination And Are Elliptical And Hermetic. All Those Films That Got Me Into Independent Cinema When I Was Watching It Seem Thin On The Ground.

You're Playing A Character In A Drama Who Happens To Be Based On Someone Who Existed. It's Never Going To 'be' That Person, But It's Based On Someone Well-known, And You Want To Create Enough Of That Person For It Not To Be A Distraction.

When I Told People I Was Going To Be Doing The Movie And The Voice Of Dobby, They Were Kind Of Awestruck, The People Who Knew About Harry Potter. I Felt Rather Guilty That I Didn't Really Understand The Scale Of The Job I Was About To Take On. Now, I Am Well Aware Of What I'm Doing, And Actually, It Feels A Very Serious Acting Responsibility.

I'm Very Fortunate That I Get Asked To Do Very Different Kinds Of Roles And I Realize How Much I Enjoy That. I Enjoy The Challenge Of Transformation. There Are Actors Who Play One Character, Or A Certain Kind Of Character, The Whole Of Their Lives. I Really Relish The Opportunity To Have The Challenge To Totally Transform.