I Don't Feel I'm A Compulsive Person.

Often For Me, If I Hear A Song I Know, It Clicks For Me And I Hear It In A Different Way And I Think, "i Could Sing That Song. I've Got Something To Say About That Song. Wanting To Connect With An Audience And Wanting Them To Rethink Songs; It Is Actually Important To Do Songs They're Familiar With. Also, I Love Those Songs. In A Way, I Think I've Changed People's Perceptions Of What A Cabaret Show Like This Could Be.

I Think American Actors Are Much More Intimidated By Shakespeare.

The Thing With Film And Theater Is That You Always Know The Story So You Can Play Certain Cues In Each Scene With The Knowledge That You Know Where The Story's Going To End And How It's Going To Go. But On Television Nobody Knows What's Going To Happen, Even The Writers.

I Actually Find In America, There's A Slight Snobbery About Actors Who Go Back And Forth Between Big Heavy Dramas And Popcorn Fare. That Always Intrigues Me, Because That Doesn't Exist In The Same Way In Britain. And I Imagine It Would Be Worse. In Terms Of The Sort Of Class, And The Sort Of Snobby, Slightly On The Back-foot Thing Britain Has. But It's Much More Prevalent In America. I'm Really Intrigued By It. I Don't Know Why That Is. But I'm Aiming To Break Down Those Barriers By Being In A Shakespeare Film And A Smurfs Film Within Six Months Of Each Other.

Actors Aren't Stupid, Mostly, And If There's A Sensibility And An Aesthetic That A Director's Going For, If You're Aware Of That Too, You Can Do Things To Help That.