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When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun to remain in that naive place as you go along, and be able to continue to discover things about your character as the writers come up with them.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.