"One of the things that one learns, is sometimes you have a bit of dialogue or something, and it doesn’t feel quite right or it needs a bit of a tweak. But oftentimes when actors don’t really like whatever it is, that’s the bit that they need to solve. If they solve it, the whole thing works much, much better. Generally speaking the writers will give you stuff which may have some uncomfortable corners in it, or things which are a little bit difficult to say, and they’ve written like that for a reason. If you can find out what the reason is, you’re probably gonna do a better job, because actors aren’t writers, even if they are, that’s not their job in this particular place. What would actors will often do is they are just kind of soften it. They’ll make it a little bit the same because it’s not their skill set, that’s not a criticism, it’s just not what you’re supposed to be doing. So the vocabulary will decrease, and there’ll be more hesitations and ‘ums’,  people touching their face and scratching their arses." da un'intervista del 2020 sul suo personaggio nella serie The Last Kingdom.

(Adrian Schiller, attore; Oxford, 21 febbraio 1964 – Norwich, 3 aprile 2024)