Most of my friends are plumbers.

Joe Cole

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It is always exciting to receive the scripts before we start on a new series.

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It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

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I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

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When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I was listening to a lot of music that was around us all the time, around the guys I was working with, and the kids - lots of young grime artists from London.

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When you're the lead, as I was in 'Offender,' you don't have to be perfect all the time; you've got time to get it right.

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If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

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Acting is one industry that is very difficult to plan for. I'd like to continue to do good work.

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My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.

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I definitely want to develop my own film or TV show at some point. I constantly strive to be as productive as possible, even when I'm not on set.

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I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.

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Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.

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