Were you looking forward to working with Reese Shearsmith and Andy Serkis?
I’d seen Lord Of The Rings, obviously, but I’d never seen The League Of Gentlemen. When I knew I was working with them I watched all their stuff. All the guys on the crew kept asking Andy to do the Gollum voice and, “Say ‘Precccciouuusss’ for me voicemail!” But he’s so lovely, he doesn’t mind. How was the shoot? The hours were extremely hard. We’d get to work and have breakfast at 5 in the afternoon, then start filming at 8 o’clock and carrying on shooting until literally the sun came up. Every single working day was night shoots. It was difficult and it was all filmed on location so you didn’t have any luxuries, you couldn’t even go to a dressing room to get warm. It was just being freezing cold in the middle of a field somewhere on the Isle Of Mann. It was pretty intense. And then trying to sleep all day in a hotel room… [rolls eyes] I was absolutely exhausted after working through the night and then you’ve got maids banging on your door, hoovers making noise. It actually drives you
