It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.

That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.