Ben Whishaw

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.