Potter for me is something that’s been giving me these amazing opportunities to start a career and learn while I’m doing, which is the best way to learn.
I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell – they’re my heroes.
I played bass for a year, but I wasn’t getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.
I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.
I feel very English in a suit. There’s something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
I don’t want to say I’ll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.
I don’t know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It’s very much about the class structure.
I didn’t have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.
I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.
My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I’m a massive quiz show person.
I’m certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking.
My dad’s got a brilliant eye for scripts ’cos he’s a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.
I’ve learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.
Some actresses are just insane. I’ve never worked with a nasty actress – they’re all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won’t read.
I’m not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it’s more an awkwardness.