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When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.