PERFORMANCE

I did a [four-part Irish] TV series called Father & Son. I was playing this Manchester gangster [who returns to Ireland after seven years in a British prison]. I’m not that, but I loved the journey of discovery through that process, the research in creating that character. He was a million miles away from me. If the writing’s there, it makes your job so much easier. I did a movie with my wife [Claire Forlani], which was a disaster. It was called Love’s Kitchen. They lost all their money, so we had to shoot it in two weeks. It was a kick-bollock scramble and it looked like shit. I don’t think I was bad, I think the movie was bad. I’ve never been bad. You know I’m lying, don’t you?