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I always had a soft spot for Sandra Bullock.
I loved 'The West Wing'; it's my favourite-ever television show.
I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too.
The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.
I always think people who stretch themselves are interesting. That's something to admire, isn't it?
What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.
I've always loved the writing of Aaron Sorkin. He cleverly intersperses big issues alongside personal relationships.
There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.
I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.
I've just finished a book called 'The Time Traveler's Wife', which I really enjoyed, but that's quite old, but I have read it. I've read it, and I enjoyed that.
I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.
Essentially, I never know what I'm going to do until I read the script, but a good story is a good story. I would like to do more modern stuff, but ultimately, it doesn't matter to me - good stories are timeless.
When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was stroking a semi-tame lioness at a game reserve. I grew up on a farm, so I felt I had an affinity with animals, and when it put a paw out, I thought I'd connected with it. But its claws came out and nicked my leg. Then I did the most stupid thing: I ran.