You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.