It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not read the third book, by the time I came to do it.

I felt an enormous responsibility because internationally there's a real passion among kiddies for these books.

It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

I like tourists. I think it's nice to live in a town that people come from all over to visit.

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.