The Scottish actor answers your questions on poisonous toads, Desperate Housewives, working with Mick Jagger and getting punched in the face by Taggart
Your performance in 2001 war thriller Enigma – adapted from the Robert Harris thriller with Kate Winslet and Tom Hollander – is one of my favourites. But would you make a better backroom boy or globetrotting spy? catwhowalksbyitself
I like to think a better globetrotting spy because I have a sense of adventure, curiosity, don’t mind risk-taking and I love travel. I did have to prepare for quite a few months beforehand to get my head around all the mathematics. So I went to visit this professor at Cambridge, and spent time at the National Museum of Computing in Milton Keynes, being taught about the concept of codebreaking. I love doing research, so it was bliss.
The other thing that people forget is that Enigma was produced by Mick Jagger, because he’s fascinated by this particular period of history. Having a rock legend behind the camera most days was surreal. But it was great because I got to hang out with Mick Jagger!
