There Is Always That Potential In The

I'd Already Started Directing Short Films When We Were Doing 'lord Of The Rings,' Then Videogame Projects. So Peter's Known That I've Been Heading Towards Directing For A Long Time. But I Always Thought My First Outing Would Be A Couple Of People And A Digital Camera In The Back Streets Of London Somewhere!

I Do Listen To Myself Sometimes And Think, 'is My Moral Compass So Easily Swayed By The Characters I Play, Or Is It Me Growing As A Human Being?'

When I Was In Theater I Was Forever Trying To Inhabit A Space Which Puts Yourself Under The Microscope As An Actor And Your Personality And Your Take On Life, But Actually Through Another Portal Of A Character.

My Sons Have To Learn That You Take The Rough With The Smooth And They've Seen A Lot Of Smooth In The Years That They've Been Around. They Didn't See The Early Years. But Both My Mum And Myself Are Actors And We Constantly Tell Them It's Not Easy. But They Understand That.

I Have A Great Interest In Victorian Musical & Cabaret Performances And Weimar Artists So The References Are There, To Cabaret And Also All That Jazz And Other Films Where, Where There's A Kind Of (influential German Playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian Approach, Almost To The Character Standing Outside Of Himself Or, In This Case, He's "self-séance-ing."