In My First Year At Drama School,

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

Nowadays People Don't Know How To Handle It If All The Ends Aren't Tied Up And They're Not Told What To Think In Films. And If They're Challenged, They Think It's Something Wrong With The Film.

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.

It's Really Rare For Film Directors To Be That Interested In Things Other Than Themselves.

I Think American Actors Are Much More Intimidated By Shakespeare. I Actually Want To Do This Shakespeare Play In New York, But I Think It's Interesting That There's This Gaping Hole In The Repertoire In The American Theater, Which Is Shakespeare. It's Hardly Ever Done, Compared To How Often It's Done In Other Companies, Not Just Britain. Someone From The Roundabout Theater Company - I Said, "you Never Do Shakespeare." And He Said, "yes, We're Not Very Good At It." And I Thought, "what A Terrible Thing To Say.".