And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I`m hoping there is. If that doesn`t happen I will be disappointed.

I don`t think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid`s faces when you tell them you`ve done it.

It wasn`t the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they`ve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn`t a really challenging part for me. I`m not critical of the film: I just don`t think I gave a very interesting performance.

I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.

Yeah, well that`s the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you`re in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you`re in it and they get short of breath.

It was actually the thing that I`ve put my heart into the most, in terms of research and everything, because I was a great admirer of Rimbaud`s work.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

I`d only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I`d not read books 2 or 3. I`d just read a bit of it. And I`d seen the films.

I had such a nice time making it, and I can`t wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house. I met JK Rowling the other night for the first time, and I was very nice to her and bought her a drink.

It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not read the third book, by the time I came to do it.

The lifestyle I have now, and the opportunities I have had, are all down to Mike [Leigh] getting me on board in Naked. After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in Prime Suspect 3 by the end of the week.