I Live In London And I Love

After Drama School I Did A Seven-month Tour Of Europe Performing In 'romeo And Juliet.' I Played Romeo.

You Go Back To Those Films Of The '40s And '50s And Hear The Dialogue, The Way The People Played Off Each Other, The Wordplay. I Think We've Really Lost That In Movies.

I'm English And I'm Used To Coming From A World Of Period Dramas, Where There's A Very Polite Restraint To Everything. Everybody's Sort Of Sitting In Drawing Rooms.

I Find Sometimes That If You Do Too Many Takes, It Starts To Become Meaningless To Me. It Is Hard To Sustain It For Me. I Don't Want To Do Too Many.

For An Actor, It's Very Important To Get A Clear Idea Of What A Director Wants, And Their Intention For What They Want To Get Out Of A Scene And How They Want To Shoot It. Having That Knowledge Is Really Valuable, For An Actor. It Means You Can Deliver More.