Not That I Had A Big Arse

One Of The First Roles I Had On Stage Was With A Brilliant Director In A Brilliant Play With A Brilliant Cast, But I Just Couldn't Find My Way Into The Heart Of The Character. I Found Myself Straining A Lot. When It Started. I Felt Lost. That Was The Eugène Ionesco Play Rhinoceros. I Don't Think I Was Prepared For That. I Don't Think I Had The Full Tool Kit To Do It Justice. It's A Very Difficult Play, It's An Extraordinarily Difficult Part, And I Never Felt I Really Got It Right. Far From It. To A Degree, Hamlet Was The Same.

We're Living Through A Time Where We Are Fighting Wars Fostered By Politics, Admittedly Not On The Same Scale As The First World War, But With Equally Tragic Realities For Our Soldiers And Their Families.

An Inflated Sense Of Self-importance? Absolutely, But I Think It Comes From Doctor Strange Need To Control Things And That's What Happens To All Surgeons, I Think. There's A Huge Degree Of Uncertainty And Bafflement.

I'm Sort Of Focused On My Long-term Goal Of Carving Out A Career That's For Life, Rather Than Being A Flash In The Pan.

I Did A Lot Of Acting At School And University, Then I Went To Drama School. It Was Quite A Normal Route.