I'd like to do it in the sense that they usually tell good stories, have interesting characters and seem to be quite popular.

I haven't tended to watch them myself, simply because my Sundays always used to be ruined by my mother and sister forcing me to watch The House of Elliot when I was wanting to watch the football highlights. That put me off costume dramas as a child, but certainly the more recent ones have been very spectacular.

How did you get into acting?

I came from a family of actors, so it was always around me. It was something that I didn't have to discover in the sense of knowing what it was, but I started doing it when I was about 13 or 14, when I realised my dreams of being a goalkeeper were going to flounder, in the sense that I was terrible. Acting was the next best thing that I was good at.