He was banned from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts' final-year musical for having no sense of rhythm. He performed in the end of year play instead.
[on filming The Devil's Double (2011), with co-star Ludivine Sagnier] I think we both see the ridiculous nature of the business, and we can both laugh at it. I think that's what the key to survival is as an actor. You can never really take yourself too seriously. It's playing, even when the materials is this dark and this serious and this real.