When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.
If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.
