It Is A Wonderful Thing To Get

I've Been Very Lucky At What's Happened In My Career To Date, But Playing Something As Far From Me As Possible Is An Ambition Of Mine - Anything From A Mutated Baddy In A Comic Book Action Thriller, To A Detective. If Anything, I'd Like Gary Oldman's Career: He's The Perfect Example Of It. I've Love To Have A Really Broad Sweep Of Characters - To Be Able To Do Something Edgy, Surprising And Unfashionable.

[sherlock Holmes] Has To Understand The World. That's Very Much John's [watson] Influence On Him. But Like A Lot Of The Friendships And Relationships In That World, It's Born Out Of Necessity. It Makes Him Better. There's A Pragmatism To It. It's Not Whimsical Or Sentimental. It's Born Out Of Necessity.

My Own Grandfathers Were A Submarine Commander And A 'desert Rats' Tank Operator In The Second World War.

I Would Love To Just Have The Work Do The Talking. We're In Positions Where People Ask Us Questions; They Want To Know About More Than Just The Work. And It Can Go Into Areas Where I've Completely Shot My Mouth Off, Whether It's Too Much About My Private Life Or Being Too Opinionated About Things In The World. I Think The Better Thing To Do - I've Learned This From People Far Wiser Than Me - Is To Do Very Good, Quiet Work Behind Closed Doors.

Maybe It's Just Getting Older, But I Don't Want To Miss Things.