Freddie Highmore

I've got a good family to support me, so I'm grounded in that way. ”

People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing. And they just want you to be able to turn up every day and carry on working. They have a horrible fear of 10- or 11-year-olds, that they're going to say 'I don't want to play today.' ”

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional. ”

I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script. ”

I like hot weather. I think it might be a bit better if England was a bit hotter. ”