I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week.
I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.
If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I'm doing a movie, I suddenly think, 'Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.' If I'm doing eight shows a week in a West End musical, I think, 'God, how lovely it would be to be in a TV series right now.'
I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.
One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.
I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
I realize I live in a bubble, and all the opportunities are there to me. And having done a number of popular TV series, I'm mildly famous in certain situations, and lots of doors open to me.
I want a TV series, I'm gonna do some acting jobs, I'm gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!
If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.
