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I'm definitely an animal lover.
There's no way I can grow a Jesus beard in a week.
If they did recast the Wolverine part, I'd be well up for it.
I had been working in England since 2005 when I left drama school.
So, yeah, if I could play anyone, I think it would be Black Panther.
I just wanted to be part of telling a good story that shocks people.
I'm 26, and I'm finally getting to play characters in their early twenties.
The whole experience of being on The Walking Dead' is a singular experience.
I was a gymnast when I was younger but sadly didn't really keep it up with age.
I have a gym membership, but that's always been more about muscle building for roles.
I used to love auditioning. I loved going into the room and meeting casting directors.
All great leaders choose great advisors, people they really trust for their governance.
The right thing is to look after people and women and women's rights to their own bodies.
If you want to survive the zombie apocalypse, you need to focus on increasing your stamina.
There's no difference between a gay person and a heterosexual person at the end of the day.
Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.
I went on Skins' when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.
If you want to succeed, you have to take the necessary risks and the occasional leap in the dark.
It just makes me so happy that I can give someone a smile by just saying hello. That's pretty cool.
I've led movies before, but not a TV show, and it's a different beast. You have to pace yourself more.
When you have that fake beard and stuff stuck on your face, you can't move your face. It's just not fun.
I think, primarily, acting is like working out a muscle; the more you get to do it, the bigger that muscle gets.
I was in this motorcade, and I was like, I'm with Michael Mann and Nick Nolte and I'm in a TV show. Oh, my God!'
I have a new appreciation for how fit martial artists are. There is so much energy being exerted when you fight.
I wasn't thinking about awards or becoming rich. I just wanted to be able to make my living by working as an actor.
Never in my life did I think I would be walking down the street and people would shout 'Jesus!' at me in the street. It's quite amusing.
When I was on 'The Walking Dead,' I was working with some great actors, but I wasn't working very much. It wasn't stretching me very much.
It's possible to shoot two TV shows. It's absolutely possible, it's not something I would choose to do. It does sound completely miserable.
Hugh Jackman, he's so tall and big, he had to eat so much. It's like Chris Hemsworth. You have to eat so much and spend so much money on food.
My whole life has changed in the last three years and The Walking Dead' is no small part of that. It's changed my life and will continue to do so.
Well, conventions are so cool, because I just feel like I'm giving out smiles all day, it's so fun, and you get people who are hysterically crying.
I can't remember what episode it is but there's an episode of Prodigal Son' where I wake up in my underwear and, you can see, I can put the beef on!
There's years of growth and emotions in that hair. And it gets cut off and you're like, 'I'm really metamorphosing into something else. I'm emerging.'
When I was about 6 years old, I got dragged into an audition for the school play. A teacher thought it would be good for me because I liked to perform and show off.
With something like Waterloo Road' it was a lot slower and because I had a relatively small part - I mean, my character wasn't a main - I wasn't in filming so much.
There aren't that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they're doing Interview with the Vampire' on Hulu, so there's all these good jobs.
'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't represent England, it's this postcard view.
I never believe it when people claim they knew they wanted to be actors when they were 4 or 5 years old. I think that's rubbish. When you're that age, you just like showing off.
I was on the tube the other day and it was after the Chelsea match and everyone was going crazy screaming across at each other. I just can't imagine ever getting that excited about it!
Honestly, a lot of the time, I'm like, 'Oh, my god, I've got so many lines to learn,' that I have to focus and get in into a bit of a zone, but there are always moments to have some fun.
There are things that happen, at different times in your life. You go through natural changes in life, when you reach your 30s, mid-30s and 40s, and you go through these different stages.
I had an audition notice from my agent telling me the fake name of the part with a short description. I knew it was for The Walking Dead' but had no idea of what the part would end up being.
I did a movie called 'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,' which had Frances McDormand and Amy Adams in it. It was Focus Features, an American company, and I used that as my ticket into America.
When you don't know how to fight you tend to put all your energy into one punch. That will tire you out quickly. You learn to keep energy in reserve and use your body in an efficient manner.
When learning boxing and martial arts, there wasn't any fakery in my training. When teaching you the basics of fighting, even though it's faked for the camera, they teach you to do it for real.
'Prodigal Son' actually came along a lot quicker than I was expecting my next job to come. I was prepared to take a while off, but then it was such a good opportunity that I couldn't turn it down.
Jockeys - it's so difficult It's completely insane. You're balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it's like you're piloting a missile It's amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men.
Being in a long-running series is great because it gives you so many opportunities - but at the same time it's a bit desk jobby: you go to the same place every day, you do the same thing and you play the same character.
I think one of the reasons why The Walking Dead' has been such a successful show is that Andrew Lincoln led that show so incredibly well, from the front, and treated everyone so amazingly, behind the scenes and in public.
In my teenage years I had a very anti-cruelty orientation and all that kind of stuff, so having spent a long time at the track and around the horses and around the people that are there, I realized the saddest thing that can happen is if anything happens to a horse.