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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.

I Fall In Love With Contradictions Without Understanding. I Can't Really Portray Them Unless I Do. So In A Roundabout Way I Have To Fall In Love, It's My Duty. If Love Is About Understanding And Understanding Is Compassion And Compassion Is Love, I Have To Have Compassion Towards The World.

I Wanted To Say, "hey, Pope Francis," But I Cried Like A Baby. I Was Reduced To A Very Humble Set Of Feelings, Because It Was Not About What Was Said: There's A Presence. That Was A Blessing For Myself And My Family And Everyone There To Be A Part Of That.

I Also Wanted To Have Fun With It. I Wanted To Have The Scope, Which I Felt Merlin Has, In His Machiavellian Bi-polar Way. He's Not To Be Trusted, Yet He Is Fighting For This Great Power And Is Really A Master, To Some Degree, In Orchestrating Camelot And King Arthur. He's A Strange, Dark Devious Character, And I Just Wanted To Have Fun, And Get Away From The Cloak And Long Beard And Pointy Hat.

It Takes Years To Establish Yourself, And Then You Have One Big Film And Everyone Calls You An Overnight Success. You Think, 'christ, I've Been Sweating And Crying For Seven Years.'.