The actor, 54, on childhood activism, studying drama at Oxford, bringing up his daughter and learning to fight the good fight
My parents are my heroes. I marvel how they were able to work as young lawyers while keeping family as a priority. They raised my sister and me with a hyper-awareness of justice, equality and gay rights. I have memories of protesting on picket lines. It really informed my worldview and perspective.
I wanted to be a surgeon. I was fascinated by the human body: I knew everything about the lymph lymphatic, the vascular and the skeletal systems. I was a big science geek, but I found that I could talk to more girls in acting class than in the science lab. So that kind of derailed my medical career.
