Mimicking People Was Something I Did Already.

My Earliest Acting Memory Is Making Up A Play For My Mom And Dad Called The Lonesome Baby. I Have No Idea What The Lonesome Baby Was About. I Just Remember The Title. But I'm Sure It Was An Epic.

I Cant Read A Note Of Music. I Just Do It All From Ear.

Mike Leigh Encourages You To Choose A Person That You Know To Base Your Character On. You Write A Whole List Of People That You Know And You Go Through That List In Great Depth With Him. And Then He Chooses One Of Those People From Your List.

I Think That If You Idealise Someone For So Long, They Can Only Disappoint And I Wouldn't Want To Be Disappointed By Those People.

I Find Singing As Somebody Else Very Liberating, It Just Frees Me Up.