I Suppose I'm Something Of An Eccentric

Although My Family - Parents And Sister - All Work In The Personnel Management Business, Their Real Passion Is Performing, Amateur Operatic Societies And So On.

Having Said That, What I Think We Found, In Doing The Show, And In Life, Generally, Is That The More You Try To Separate Sex From Everything Else, It's Impossible. You Can't. The Act Of Observation Affects The Actual Experiment, And We See That In This.

The First Job I Ever Did In The Theatre, I Was Supposed To Be A Genius Piano Player. I Couldn't Play The Piano, But You Just Sit There At A Piano Like You're Playing, And Suddenly All This Amazing Music Comes Out And The Audience Believes You Can Do It. It's The Same With Computers. I Love Scenes Where There Are People Yanking At Monitors, "yes I'll Put You Through Now," And You Know They're Just Doing That. But You Can Look Brilliant At All This Technology. I Love It.

Hopefully, Any Character I Play Has An Anchor In Reality. The More Fantastical Characters, Or Fantastical Worlds That They Inhabit Are Really Fun And Allow You, In Some Ways, To Tell Stories And Reveal Things About Our Lives That Would Be Harder To Take, In A More Realistic Setting.

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.