David Morrissey

And I do, you know, I do miss the fact that I never had an adult relationship with him.

But this song is about this man's relationship with his father and he's a real hero of mine, Ronnie Lane, Debris.

But the first person who came up to me at RADA and sort of said they'd seen One Summer and they were really friendly was Ralph Fiennes.

And, you know, I'd never met anyone like Ray Fiennes.

You know, I'd only seen people like that on the telly.

You know, he spoke very posh.

And he was such a lovely man and was very friendly.

And then I saw then amongst my fellow students that it was a real mixture of people.

There was, you know, there was people like me, but there was people who'd been to public school and Oxford and Cambridge and all that.

They were all meeting in the same place and it was a meritocracy.

It was very much about what you did.

Nobody was asking me what my A-levels were.

And that was a real freedom for me.

And it was back at the Liverpool Playhouse.

So I had to... In this play, it was about policemen cottaging in toilets.

And I was this young recruit.

and there was a bit where one policeman sort of assaults me in a toilet, and then the next bit was I had to sort of dress up as Liza Minnelli from Cabaret and do a little song, and then at the end I had to strip off and dance around with the other actors singing YMCA.

And, yeah, my mum and my auntie Pat came to see it, and I was dreading it.

What did they think?

So I met my mum afterwards, and the first thing she said to me was, she said, ''Have you been eating properly?''