To Be Challenged Means To Strive. I'm

My Wife And I Use A Lot Of Garlic And Rosemary With Roast Lamb. It Has To Be New Zealand Lamb. The Domestic Variety Is Too Gamy, In My Experience.

To Be Challenged Means To Strive. I'm Almost Certain That's True.

I Think I Went Through Early Years Of My Career Sort Of Thinking, "well, Maybe I'm Just Not British Enough." And I Always Remember My Father Saying To Me, "don't Think You're English, Because However English You Feel, Some Englishman Is Going To Remind You That You're Not." Now, For Him It Must Have Been A Much More Acute Experience, Because He Immigrated To England. I Was Born There, So I Kind Of Felt I Had The Right To Assume That I Was British, But It's True. The English Are A Very Warm And Welcoming People, But There's A Streak In There That Reminds You, Occasionally.

I'm Not Qualified To Do Anything Else. So There Better Be Another Job. I'm Kind Of Stuck Now. I'm Enjoying My Life And I'm Enjoying My Work, And I'm Enjoying The Fact That The Work I'm Doing Is Garnering Some Interest And That's Great. I Just Hope That It Continues.

I Think, Because Of My Background, Which Is Slightly More Exotic Than The Average British Actor, I Think, I Sort Of Occupied This Little Niche Quite Early On Of Playing The Foreign Guy. It Started Way Back At Drama School, I Played An Eastern European Heavy, I Played The Russian Mobster. And I Have Done All Those Different Ethnic Roles, And I Think It's Partly Because Of My Look, I Think I've Got An Adaptable Sort Of Nondescript Ethnicity, Which You Can't Quite Pin Down, But It's Enough To Kind Of Get A Flavor Of Something.