Hopefully, Any Character I Play

I Suppose I've Got A Reputation For Playing Quite Extreme Characters And Making Them Quite Believable.

For A Culture That Has Such A Problem With Death, We Seem To Deal With It In A Quite Bizarre Way. We See People Shot, Killed And Blown Up, And We Find It Funny And Sexy And All Those Things. But, The Reality Of It Is That Every Day People Die, And People Are Really Sad And They Grieve And They Go Through A Really Difficult Process With It.

And So, In Terms Of Setting The Right Tone And Finding A Way Of Presenting All Of These Things, That Creates A Cohesive Whole And Doesn't Alienate The Audience, Is Tough. That's A Challenge. And I Think The Tone Of A Lot Of Shows Is Discovered Through Experimentation And Actually Making It. Eventually, It Starts To Cohere.

I'm Not A Tony Blair Impersonator.

When You Come To Actually Act, It's A Game. It May Be A Very Serious Game, But It's Still A Game. If You Lose That Sense Of Play, The Work Suffers.