I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.