I've been playing Jim Hacker in Yes, Prime Minister (2013), and although he is very different to Gerald [The Wright Way (2013)], both series feature a love of words, and entailed huge amounts of line learning for each recording.
[on Ben Elton] Ben and I had always wanted to work together again, because we loved it the first time round.
I've always played quite intense, serious people, and I quite like that - maybe it's something to do with me.