It's Always Great To Play A Man

You Think, You Don't Just Speak. The Lines Come Off The Thoughts.

An Acting Assistant Stage Manager In A Theater In Canterbury, A Rep Theater. A Small Wage But Just Enough To Get By On, And I Made Props, And I Walked On, And I Changed Scenery, And I Realized That I Just Loved It.

I Envy Children Who Know That They're Going To Become Doctors, Know They're Going To Go Into The Forces Or Whatever. I Think Choice Is One Of The Hardest Things, But That's What I Try To Give My Children, To Say You Can Do Anything.

I've Always Thought Of Characters Like Advent Calendars. You Have Christmas And You Have All The Little Doors Over The Windows And Every Day You're Allowed To Open One More As It Gets Towards Christmas And You See More And More About What's Inside That House.i Remember As A Kid Being Fascinated By That And I've Always Thought Of My Character As A Little Bit Like That. I Like To Have Secrets And Slowly Let Those Secrets Out To The Audience, Sometimes Never Let Them Out, But Let Them See As You Open The Shutters, Open And See A Little Bit More Of A Character.

Americans Enjoy Uniformity In A Way That The British Don't; They Wanted Everybody Of A Sort Of Nice Chorus Line Height And Here I Was, This Person Who Was A Good Three Inches Taller Than Anyone Else On The End Of The Line.