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I Think Directing In A Team Is A Really Good Idea Because It Stops The Cult Of The Director As God Straight Away, And Also You're Discussing Things On Set So It Opens It Out To Everyone And It Becomes A Totally Collaborative Thing. And You Have Someone Who Supports You When You're Feeling A Bit Insecure.

There Are Some Days When You Don't Feel Like Being Alan Cumming.

I Actually Find In America, There's A Slight Snobbery About Actors Who Go Back And Forth Between Big Heavy Dramas And Popcorn Fare. That Always Intrigues Me, Because That Doesn't Exist In The Same Way In Britain. And I Imagine It Would Be Worse. In Terms Of The Sort Of Class, And The Sort Of Snobby, Slightly On The Back-foot Thing Britain Has. But It's Much More Prevalent In America. I'm Really Intrigued By It. I Don't Know Why That Is. But I'm Aiming To Break Down Those Barriers By Being In A Shakespeare Film And A Smurfs Film Within Six Months Of Each Other.

Sometimes People Get Really Sniffy About The Films You Choose If You've Done More Dramatic Projects Or You're Classically Trained.

If You Are A Cabaret Artist And You Are Mostly Singing Other People's Songs, You're Asking Them To Rethink A Song, Listen To It In A Different Way. The Most Impact You Can Have While Asking Them To Re-listen To A Song Is If It's A Song They Know Very Well.