I Never Get Afraid Of

The Book [night Manager] Is Amazing. It Is Amazing To Act In Any Book Adaptation, Because A Book Gives You So Many Secrets And Details That Don't Necessarily Get Shot In An Adaptation. They Give You A Cushion Underneath Everything. The Detail In The Character, The Detail In The Tone.

There Are Certain Things In The Scripts That Need To Be Planned: You Know, Big Stunt Sequences, Battle Sequences... You Can't Improvise That Stuff. You Can Improvise When There's Just Two Of You Standing In A Kitchen And The Most Dramatic Thing That's Going To Happen Is Someone's Going To Open The Fridge.

When You're Starting Out As An Actor People Are Very Interested In Who You Are Because They Want To Know Where They Can Put You. And Quite Often, And We're All Guilty Of This Is Our Lives, We Judge Very Quickly And We Pigeon-hole People Very Quickly Based On How They Look And How They Talk And How They Dress And We Think: "oh Yeah, We Know Who You Are."

Everybody Thinks That You Go To Africa And You Build A School, Or You Teach English, Or You Build A Hospital. But Actually All You Need To Do Is Play Football With Kids For Six Months And Then After They've Trusted You, You Tell Them About The Truth Of Aids, And That Their Grandmother Didn't Die From Witchcraft, She Died From Aids. And That's The Biggest Difference You Can Make.

Within Us There Is The Capacity Of Being Anyone Or Anything