Elizabeth Day

Or did you always suspect that so many of us are grappling with so much trauma that there would be a degree of resonance there?

You physically transformed yourself for your role in Half-Man.

Was that also deliberate because you wanted to distance how recognised you were from your baby reindeer self?

So the character of Reuben in Half-Man is chilling and powerful and sinister and manipulative and also charismatic and intoxicating.

And you've made the point before that something can't be toxic unless at first it's intoxicating, which I thought was so profound.

And you do, I mean, you are utterly chilling in the role, Richard.

So well done.

You've nailed the transformation.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And Halfman tells the story of Reuben's relationship with his sort of brother from another mother, Niall.

Why is it called Halfman?

Because originally it was called something else, wasn't it?

Congratulations, because it must have been so hard in many ways to follow up.

And I know that you did them back to back.

You did Baby Ranger and you went straight into Half Man.

And that actually brings us onto your first failure.

Because your first failure, as you put it, is failure to prioritise anything but work.

When did that obsession with work start?