Luke Evans

From the big mountains in the north to the valleys in the south, all through my childhood and teenage years, my family would always holiday in Wales.

Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.

The gym is somewhere you can go to just forget for an hour what you do for a living, what you are doing on a daily basis. You just turn up and get on with it.

I would love to be able to tap dance.

I'd like to make a film musical. That's really my dream.

'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

My style is determined by the mood, the period and the circumstances which I'm going through in a given moment.

I don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy.

It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

The Sixties was all about style and a certain look. But what was interesting about 1963 was that it was pre-Beatles, so the clothes of that time, especially the suits, were very different from the clothes post-Beatlemania.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.

The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.

Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.