There’s not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It’s all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It’s more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.

The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, “You’re not going to get recognized because all you’re going to see is basically your forehead and eyes.”

When many different voices send you in different directions, you can’t listen to your own.

For me, because I’ve had classical theater training, when people say, “Oh, my god, the play is amazing!,” I’ll never get to see it because I’m in it.

I’m Volstag and what you see is what you get. He’s a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He’s a god, which helps. He’s full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There’s a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I’m not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It’s earth-shaking stuff.

Well, I’m not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it’s got me hooked.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, ‘I’m a bad guy.’ They think they’re the right guy.