I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV!

In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.

I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.

It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.