I love Coventry City Football Club with a passion, yeah you can all laugh, but if we're 3-0 down at half time I usually see that as a result.
Improving my acting ability.
Bodybuilding - Steroid free, and to anyone bodybuilding, if you're not going to be Mr. Universe or Mr. Olympia, please stay off the steriods. I have so many friends, who, down the years, are still suffering because of it.
Love watching films.
I did spend a long time studying the fighting arts, and I met some great guys along the way. Usually the more skilled these guys are, the more humble they are. I have met some real gentlemen down the years, but if you're the bully type and see this as a weakness, then more fool you.
I'd like to meet:
Meeting your heroes can often lead to disappointment. Therefore, I think this more a case of who I'd like to work with:
Ken Stott (Rebus, Messiah) The man is pure genius.
Helen Mirren. Julie Walters.
What you could learn from the above people, and others like them, from just being on the same set, would be amazing.
Music:
Everything basically, apart from classical, sorry it just depresses me.
Movies:
There is no point in my stating the films I like because there are so many. But I do enjoy individual performances and films that have been thought about long before pen has even been put to paper.
Television:
Rebus. Afterlife. X-Factor (Only the early rounds, for obvious reasons).
Books:
Only ever read Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist and The Magic Cottage. So to all you people out there who are compulsive readers I guess I can be deemed to be a bit of a pugalist.
However, being an actor, I have read scores of scripts.
Heroes:
Batman - Why? Because he is a tortured soul. He has been given no choice, an anti-hero, the world he is in has come to him and not the other way round. He is masked, so no-one knows who he is, and in that, he will never take the credit he deserves as a man, for all the good that he does.
As a kid I wasn't so struck on Batman because he didn't have any super powers, precisely the reason why I was so taken with him as an adult.
Obviously, I'm kidding about Batman being my hero.
But if you think about it, there are people in everyday life, who are in situations whereby they have to deal with stuff that, ordinarily, they probably wouldn't want to. Thrown into a world that that would be easier to walk away from, but don't.
These people are usually your mother, your father, your brother or your sister. Basically, just someone close to you.
Sometimes you don't have to look so far a field to find your real heroes. But you do have to look. And, when you've found them, then maybe you can start to look further a field for the more "Famous" or "Accomplished" people you admire.
I think the search will be all the more sweeter once you have let your real heroes know that their lives have not been in vein, or taken for granted, and that you take with you a part of them everywhere you go.
