A Good Comedy’s Very Hard To Make,

Normally When I'm Sent A Script I'll Read It Through To See How It Hangs As A Story And Then I'll Go Back And Read It Through Again And Look At The Character.

As An Actor, I Like To Get A Bit Of Momentum Going With A Character And Kind Of Work A Bit Quicker. I Mean, Not Crazy-fast, But, You Know, Five Or Six Pages A Day Is A Nice Pace.

I Suppose I Look For Humor In Most Situations Because It Humanizes Things; It Makes A Character Much More Three-dimensional If There's Some Kind Of Humor. Not Necessarily Laugh-out-loud Type Of Stuff, Just A Sense That There Is A Humorous Edge To Things. I Do Like That.

I Do Go Back To Ireland, And I'll Probably Be Doing A Film In Ireland In January, And I Guess That Kind Of Keeps Me Classified As 'the Irish Actor,' But The Last Four Or Five Projects That I've Been In Are Either American Or English, So I Don't Feel Terribly Trapped In That. But Sometimes, Yeah, You Would Like To Not Be Called 'the Irish Actor.' You'd Prefer To Just Be Called 'the Actor.'

I Kind Of Have An Interest In All History. And I Suspect It Comes From Being Irish - We Like Stories, We Like Telling Stories, Which Makes A Lot Of Us Lean Towards Being Writers Or Actors Or Directors.