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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.

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.

But I Think The Children Of Actors Share A Certain Pragmatic Approach. One Is Denied Some Of That 'running Away With The Circus' Element Of Being An Actor.

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.