How do you see your character, Jean, in "Miss Julie"?

There's no greater snob known to man than the working class aristocrat. The guy that sees himself above his own. In his world, he's as good as any king. Unfortunately, when Miss Julie comes into the room, he's reminded of what he is.

How would you characterise the relationship of Miss Julie and Jean?

For me, they're both so acutely aware of what they are. It's a constant means of torture. She's acutely aware that he's not the man for her, he's aware that she's not the girl for him, but let's play the game anyway and see where it goes. They're thrust together by a common disease, unhappiness. But it still doesn't make them compatible. The tragedy of it, that it shouldn't really be a barrier to them. Their unhappiness comes through gender and class discrimination. Get rid of those two, and they may feasibly be happy.

You've just worked on Michael Winterbottom's latest film, formerly called "Kingdom Come". Who do you play?

It's loosely based on Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor Of Casterbridge". I'm the man who sells his wife for, in this case, a gold mine, which is the central mechanism that makes it all go. There are no leads. Technically, how that comes out on a poster campaign, I don't know. If I were them, I'd put Wes [Bentley], Milla [Jovovich] and Sarah [Polley] on it. All the young'uns. They'll look really good.