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" As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place. "
Strange
Things
Place
" Because I don't really think of myself as a hunk, to be honest. "
Think
Honest
Myself
" Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years. "
Never
People
Like
" But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles. "
Think
Drawn
Medieval
" But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture. "
Like
Culture
Cafe
" I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards. "
Drama
School
Growing Up
" In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. "
Experience
Person
Get
" In reality, for me every role is completely different. "
Role
Different
Every
" Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body. "
Bad
Very
Body
" I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself. "
You
Time
Yourself
" I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake. "
Hard
Idea
Going
" I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah. "
Life
Yeah
Think
" I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs. "
Me
New
Money
" No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout. "
Think
You
Fan
" So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake. "
Family
Up
Today
" Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it. "
Thought
Fun
Beginning
" The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since. "
Voice
Dance
Experience
" There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want. "
Career
People
Opportunity
" Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable. "
Shirts
Definition
Comfortable
" When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there. "
Got
Myself
Time
" You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person. "
Right
Person
Chemistry
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