We're Blessed With, As We Were On

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.

Often Jobs Are Un-turndownable Even Before You Read The Script. You Go, "well, I Have To Do That."

When You're Training As An Actor, A Lot Of The Big Work You're Learning Is To Treat Fictional Characters Like Real People. You Don't Have The Problem Of Discovering A Backstory With Real People, But There's Always A Mystery Which Is Common To Both Fictional And Factual Characters. They Are Never Quite The Person You Think They Are.

I Teach For The Book Trust, Which Promotes Reading And Writing With Children.

I Get Plenty Of Time To Re-engage With The World I'm Trying To Depict, So I'm Not Always Living In These Parallel Worlds.