Seeing A Man Praying To Allah Is

I Don't Mean This Grandly, But It Was Never My Intention To Live In L.a. And Do A Big Network Show.

Acting Can Be A Narrow And Isolated Experience, Because You Only Examine Your Particular Part.

It's Certainly True That I Was Brought Up In That British Amateur Tradition, The One Which Always Held That If You Were Reasonably Good At Cricket, Knew One Or Two Latin Texts And A Few Zingy Oscar Wilde Quotes For Dinner Parties, You Were Pretty Much Ready To Go And Run Some Outpost In Hindustan.

It Was Pretty Daunting. Normally, I Never Go To A Gym, But Before We Started Shooting, I Thought I'd Better. I Reckoned I Was In Really Good Shape, And Then I Looked Around And I Was Half The Size Of Everyone Else. A Lot Of These American Actors Have This - In My View - Misplaced View That They Have To Look Like Action Man. The Trouble Is, They All Run The Risk Of Being Interchangeable.

I Have A Three-year-old And A Four-year-old At Home, And My Mornings Are About Just Dealing With The Fact Of That. I Oddly Enjoy It.