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I do enjoy doing pantomime at Christmas. If I didn't do it, I'd feel as though I was missing something.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

I think British audiences are accustomed to the 'boo' factor and pantomimes.

My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

My father is a Japanese-American and my mother is a Caucasian. So obviously, New Year's Day is big for our family, you know, oshogatsu. We had obon festivals every year. All those things.