The Thing About Hitchcock Which Is Quite

Best Ever Was Filming In Barcelona Last Year, And I Had A Couple Of Scenes With De Niro. He's A Very Shy Man. Speaks So Quietly That People Tend To Bend Down And Adopt The Same Tone, Almost The Same Voice, Whenever They Talk To Him - Watching, You'd Think Someone's Offering To Carry Out A Hit For Him When They're Just Offering Him A Cup Of Coffee.

I Went To Meet Joe Johnston, The Director, And He's Charming. I've Been Very Lucky. Most Of The Directors I've Worked With Are Charming. But Joe's A Particularly Charming Man, And He Showed Me Lots Of Designs And, Rather Memorably, Welcomed Me To The Marvel Universe.

When I Told People I Was Going To Be Doing The Movie And The Voice Of Dobby, They Were Kind Of Awestruck, The People Who Knew About Harry Potter. I Felt Rather Guilty That I Didn't Really Understand The Scale Of The Job I Was About To Take On. Now, I Am Well Aware Of What I'm Doing, And Actually, It Feels A Very Serious Acting Responsibility.

I Work Best When A Little Scared, When There's So Much More Than The Lines To Think About.

You're Playing A Character In A Drama Who Happens To Be Based On Someone Who Existed. It's Never Going To 'be' That Person, But It's Based On Someone Well-known, And You Want To Create Enough Of That Person For It Not To Be A Distraction.