and this is My Cultural Life for Harper's Bazaar.

What's your favourite cliché?

"Can't take it with you when you go."

Poem known by heart?

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Ode to a Nightingale."

What would you say your guilty pleasure is?

I've got a sweet tooth, so Banoffee pie ranks quite highly.

What was the first record that you bought?

Now 24.

And the book that changed your life?

Catcher in the Rye.

What's your audition piece?

It was Ricky Roma, Glengarry Glen Ross,

and it was, "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" from Hamlet,

if you have to do a classical and a modern.

Favourite, all time favourite film is very hard,

but I might go with Betty Draper and say Singin' in the Rain,

but there are lots of others:

Wings of Desire from Wim Wenders, and The Bicycle Thieves.

And your favourite villain?

Well, I saw it again recently...

I think... Heath Ledger's Joker is utterly original.

Who would you like to play you in film?

Christopher Walken,

it would be very funny to see what he would do to me.

Your favourite hour of the day?

Uh, dusk and dawn, transitional hours.

The magic hours when light changes.

Do you have any irrational fears?

No, I'm quite a rationalist.

I'm not superstitious, I think life is...

life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities

to worry about illogical things.

A recurring dream?

Being abandoned in my grandmother's house on my own

and waking up to find everyone's gone.

So speaks a child who went to boarding school.

Abandonment issues, I think that could be it...

I forgive you, Mum and Dad. It's fine.

What's worth fighting for?

An awful lot. Your name, your privacy,

your family...

Certain parts, sometimes as an actor,

I think is worth fighting for, in sort of a metaphorical way.

What's your signature dance?

Wow...

The running man sometimes pops up.

That's definitely not my signature.

That's when I don't know what's good for me.

What's your USP?

Being able to fart on cue.

- That's impressive. - Thank you.

I didn't mean to do that one.

Money or sex?

Sex.

Apollo or Dionysus?

Dionysus.

Good cop or bad cop?

Bad cop.

Dylan or Hendrix?

Pass.

James Dean or James Stewart?

Oh, no!

That is...

You are, you are digging deep into my soul of split personality...

um, both.

- Optimist or pessimist? - Optimist.

- Minimalist or maximalist? - Minimalist.

Grace Kelly or Grace Jones?

Grace Kelly.

Lennon or McCartney... Lennon. Sorry, Paul.

And my final question is what's your fancy dress?

My fancy dress is a sort of

snoop doggy-style, 50's pimp...

thing going on.

- I bet you wear it well. Thank you. - I do, I do.

Been known to come out at weddings.

- Thank you. - My pleasure. Thank you.

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