Oh I've played so many antiheroes really in the last few years that I've become rather matter-of-fact about it. It would be nice to play a nice person, except Dr Dell was a nice person in the Murder Room series.

Well, heroes are nearly always exceptionally boring. One thinks of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, despite the fact that he has a lot of poetry, is not nearly such a fun part to play as Mercutio and similarly I always felt that Robin Hood was a bit of a crump, but Sir Guy of Gisbon, specially as played by Basil Rathbone, was far and away the best part in the film.

No, I think baddies are much more interesting because they're much more psychologically complex. It's a challenge to put over someone who's just fundamentally evil and to make them acceptable.

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