All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
Who do I think Jack The Ripper was? Do you know, I've got no idea who Jack The Ripper was. No idea.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.