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I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me.

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.