My morning ritual is …
Get up. Have a coffee. Listen to the news on the radio. I listen to the BBC, which I still have great respect for. I always like to listen to the Today programme.
I feel optimistic about …
… the fact that we’re still evolving and we haven’t got there yet, but possibly we will get there. I think we will. We’re struggling really badly as a race. We’re in a bad, bad way. But I know in my heart that what is in me is in other people as well, and we will come together. Things will get better. Humans beings are deeply, deeply stupid, but we will evolve.
What makes me angry …
Poverty, and the way people are treated, the way people are written off. In my hometown, Dundee, we have fifth generation heroin addicts, and you ask: ‘Why?’ It’s because they’re ignored. They’ve been ignored forever. I grew up in poverty. I went to a school where I was probably trained to be ignored but I will not be ignored.
If I wasn’t an actor, I’d have liked to become …
… an architect. I was fascinated by physical shape in houses or other buildings. Once you’ve encountered Frank Lloyd Wright, that changes you forever.
