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When You Play A Serious Role, As Far As I'm Concerned, I Feel I'm Using Exactly The Same Skills, Whatever They Are, To Play The Role As You Do With Something More Obviously Comic. It's Slightly Different Muscles, But The Same Skill Set.

This Is Sort Of Inflection-free Acting [playing Maigret], And I Really Wasn't Sure If I Could Do It - You Make Your Mind Up On Whether I've Succeeded Or Not. But Yes, I Found It Difficult When We Were Shooting; It Was A Couple Of Weeks Before I Settled Into Not Worrying - To Finding A Way Of Delivering Those Lines - So My Worries Of Many Months Before I Think Had Been Justified. I Found It A Difficult Way Of Being.

I Think In Many Ways Johnny English Is A More Believable Character.

The Older You Get, The More You Realise How Happenstance... Has Helped To Determine Your Path Through Life.

The Maigret Stories Are All Very Different In Terms Of The Content And The Way That The Stories Are Told. They're Not What I Would Call Formulaic.