Raza Jaffrey

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.