As An Actor, It's Much,

The Thing About Playing Gods, Whether You're Playing Thor And Loki Or Greco Roman Gods Or Indian Gods Or Characters In Any Mythology, The Reason That Gods Were Invented Was Because They Were Basically Larger Versions Of Ourselves.

I Thought Theater People Wouldn't See Me If I Hadn't Trained. I Didn't Want To Just Be The Brideshead Guy, To Spend The Rest Of My Life Wearing Waistcoats. I Got The Chance To Try Everything. Not Just Romeos, But Pimps And Grandfathers And Even One Role As A Woman In A Naomi Wallace Play Called Slaughter City.

As A Child, I Had A Deck Of Marvel Top Trumps. You Can Get Top Trumps With Racing Cars, Or Fighter Planes, Or Football Players... I Had All Of The Marvel Superheroes And Super-villains You Could Get, And I Used To Play Them With My Friends. They Were All Listed According To Their Height And Weight And Agility And Their Super-powers.

Quite Often, Most Of Us Are Defined First By Our Vital Statistics - Our Sex, Our Height, Our Weight, The Colour Of Our Eyes And Then We're Defined By Our Job.

I Fear Looking Back And Wishing I Had Done Things I Hadn't.