Isn't it just amazing, the transformation? It has just been so much fun watching it come together.

We gave the designers some parameters. We gave them the base colors. But we didn't want to hamper their creativity.

It was always there, so we opened it back up. It will be great for entertaining with the flow between the rooms.

All the woodwork was painted a dark brown. So we had to deal with the issue of paint first.

It had just been sitting there. Houses were meant to have people in them.

My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.