When I Was Doing Bean

Confronting A Stadium Audience, You Can't See The Whites Of Their Eyes. It's Just An Amorphous Mass Of Noise And, Of Course, You Can't See The Alleged Billions Watching At Home Either, So The Degree To Which You Are Intimidated Is Quite Low.

It Is Very Linear Storytelling, And I Think That's Not So Much The Fashion. I Was Watching A New Drama The Other Night Which Was Extremely Non-linear, Where You Flash Back And Flash Forward In Ways That Certainly Keeps You On Your Toes As The Audience. There's Not Much Of That Courage With The Storytelling In Our Maigret Film.

I Enjoy Racing Historic Motorcars From The '50s And '60s. The Seed Of My Interest Was Planted When I Was About 12 Years Old And Took Over My Mother's Morris Minor. I Drove It Around My Father's Farm. But My Favorite Car Is Still A Mclaren F1, Which I Have Had For 10 Years.

It's The Demand In Many Ways Of Modern Television Drama - It's Very Low Key And Naturalistic, And, Generally Speaking, The Characters That I've Played Have Not Been Low Key And Naturalistic.

[maigret Sets A Trap] Was Always Going To Be The First Film, And It Seemed To Be Quite A Nice Story. But Of Course It Meant That Here I Was Playing This New Character For The First Time, In A Place Where He Had Been A Relative Failure, As All These People Had Been Murdered And The Pressure Was On. Rather Than Starting Optimistically With His Pipe In Front Of The Fireplace, He Was In Quite A Difficult Place.