I Do Always Feel Very

I'm Very Interested In People, So If A Character Happens To Be Real, There's That Much More To Look At.

When You're Training As An Actor, A Lot Of The Big Work You're Learning Is To Treat Fictional Characters Like Real People. You Don't Have The Problem Of Discovering A Backstory With Real People, But There's Always A Mystery Which Is Common To Both Fictional And Factual Characters. They Are Never Quite The Person You Think They Are.

You're Playing A Character In A Drama Who Happens To Be Based On Someone Who Existed. It's Never Going To 'be' That Person, But It's Based On Someone Well-known, And You Want To Create Enough Of That Person For It Not To Be A Distraction.

Hitchcock Is A Big Ask. I Am Playing Someone Significantly Older Than Me And Someone Significantly Bigger Than Me. The Stuff I Find Very Interesting Is Why Certain Physical Things Have Come About. How Can He Be Light On His Feet When He Is So Big? How Can His Weight Vary So Much? Where Does This Rather Beautiful Voice Come From?

I Teach For The Book Trust, Which Promotes Reading And Writing With Children.