There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.