My Take Is That Acting Is Acting.

I Stayed In Baghdad Every Summer Until I Was 14. My Dad's Sister Is Still There, But Many Of My Relatives Have Managed To Get Out. People Forget That There Are Still People There Who Are Not Radicalized In Any Particular Direction, Trying To Live Normal Lives In A Very Difficult Situation.

I Was Thinking About That. I Was Thinking, This Is Like Our Boyhood; This Is Like Our Getting Together Over 12 Years To Make - This Our Apehood! I Mean, This Is It! For Me, The Relationships, All Of Those Things, Over Such A Long Period Of Time Now With Actors, But Also Seeing The Characters Grow, Develop, And Change, And Go Through Different Situations.

I Never Felt Totally, 100%, Patriotically English... I'd Seen A Lot Of The World By An Early Age - Sort Of Spent A Lot Of Time Traveling Around Lebanon And I'd Seen Babylon, And Damascus, And All Sorts Of Places In The Middle East By The Time I Was Ten. Then We'd Return To Ruslip In West London... Done A Fair Bit Of Traveling Really.

I Remember Kind Of Doing Early Acting And Thinking, "god, They Don't Paint Behind The Sets." It's A Bit Of A Shame, Really - "oh, What's On The Other Side Of This Wall? Oh, You Can See The Plywood." I Was Really Disappointed. I Just Thought That These Things Were Real, From Watching Things As A Kid.

When You Start To Do Research Into Gorillas Or Any Kind Of Apes, If You're Going To Play Them, That's One Of The Biggest Misconceptions. And When I Did Kong, You're Not Doing Gorilla Movements, You're Not Doing Ape Movements, You're Looking For A Personality. It's Like Saying Okay I'm Going To Do Human Movements.