I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!

I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.

I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.