You Know What? Joy Is

There Is A Bit Of Me If I'm Pushed In One Way I Might Bounce Back And Go The Opposite.

A Large Part Of How An Actor Works And Their Process Is The Stimulation Of What's Around You, And None More So Than In A Period Piece. This Is A Modern Piece, As Much As It Is Set In A Different Time, Age And Myth. If It Wasn't Relevant, It Wouldn't Have Been Made And We Wouldn't Be Putting Our Energy Into It. It's Relevant For Us Today Because, In Some Ways, It Throws Up A Mirror To All Of Us. As An Actor, You Get Stimulus And You're Effected By That, Whether It's Costumes Or Funny Beards Or Castles.

He [merlin] Is Slightly From Another World And Place, So It [challenge In Bringing The Role To Life] Is About Having Fun And Presenting It In A New Way. He's More Of A Politician, And Slightly Machiavellian, But There's Also A Lovely Relationship Going On Between Merlin And Arthur. There's So Much To Be Had, Really.

I Guess There's Nothing I Don't Like About Merlin, In This Presentation. I Love Everything, Even The Things I Find Despicable And Abhorrent In Merlin. They're Actually A Joy To Ride On The Tailcoats Of.

I Think Religion Might Throw Up A Kind Of Resistance, But I Think If One Talks About Conditioning We Can All Kind Of Understand That.