You're not wanting for opportunities in your career.

Do we need, yeah, do we need, um, I mean, again, we've talked about all these genre opportunities.

Do you need to be a Harry Potter teacher?

Do you need your Star Wars role finally?

Did I actually, did I, I can't, oh, I was nearly in Harry Potter.

What?

Almost, yeah.

By who?

You can say this.

I can probably say this one.

The very first movie, I think it was, and it was, um, it was, who was the, was it Tom Riddle's in the first one, right?

Uh, in the very first one?

But he's like in it for like a scene.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

In a flashback or something like that.

Okay.

And, um, they had, I seem to remember it was right at the beginning of my career.

I auditioned for it and I think they wanted to put me on a retainer.

They offered me something like, it was crazy.

I'd hardly done any work.

Yeah.

And me and I think maybe 10 other actors or something like that, they wanted to put us in a retainer so that they could hold us and keep us to choose later.

Which, who it'd be, it was a really strange thing.

Yeah.

And they offered quite a lot of money for me at that time.

It was a ton of money.

It was like 40,000 pounds or something like that.

Right.

And I'd done very little work and I wouldn't be able to do any work for about seven months, I think it was.

Right.

And I said to my agent, what do you think?

And Ruth Young, who's been my agent since, well, for, what is it?

24 years, at least, 25 maybe.

She was like, absolutely not.

Don't do that.

Right.

And she was like, we're going to go and do something else.

And I ended up doing the play.

I got booed by a homophobic gentleman.

Full circle.

I did that instead and got paid, I think, 275 pounds a week.

Always was.

But it was part of the making of me, and it was like, I actually got an acting workout.

It was actually learning and doing all that.