If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.