When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

I came to acting in a very circuitous way.