I don't need to be successful. I love theater and I love acting so as long as I'm doing that I'm happy and I'm learning. If I end up going back to the U.K. to do some theater, great! Sounds fantastic.
I've been in the industry long enough now - I've been a working actor since 2002. I'm very aware that at some point, I won't be as successful as I am now, so I'm enjoying it. I know that there will be points where it's not going as well, and I'm prepared for that.
I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.
It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.
Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.
I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.
The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.
It's hard to make a book episodic.
[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.
