I Think You're Bound To

It Certainly Helps, I Think, With Some Actors To Understand The Process Of Acting. You See What Extraordinary Pressure They're Under, There's A Huge Circus Dedicated To A Particular Moment And They're Got To Deliver And It Can Help That You, Even If Empathetically Alone, Understand What They're Doing.

At The Moment, I'm Certainly Not Thinking 'never Again', But Neither Am I Thinking 'i Can't Wait To Play That Part Again'. I'm Somewhere In Between.

The Character [maigret] Is Bound To Change And Develop, And I Wouldn't Like To Claim That We Are Perfectly Formed Straight Out Of The Box. I Think It's What I'd Call An 'optimistic Start'. As You Know, For Me, No Glass Is Anything Other Than Half Empty, So I Apologise For My Reticence In Terms Of Promoting This Programme.

The Maigret Stories Are All Very Different In Terms Of The Content And The Way That The Stories Are Told. They're Not What I Would Call Formulaic.

I Can Be Reasonably Funny And Light-hearted When I'm In The Company Of Good Friends, But I'm Not A Jokesmith. I Tend To Be Quite Serious.