Can you remember first seeing your costume, did you like it?

It was okay. You know I’m an actor, I keep repeating the same thing, and I remember when I went to drama school the first thing that they issued me was a dance kit in tights, in a leotard and I felt a bit self conscious about that having never been in anything like that. And James Kahn - you know who James Kahn is - was in my class and Dabney Coleman was in my class and here we are standing around in these tights, a leotard and looking at each other and you know the first reaction is always, God do we look ridiculous – do we interpret this as an attack on our masculinity? But after half an hour you forget it all because it’s a matter of acceptance. This is what you’re there for. You’re there to learn and to act and costume is just another part of your tools, that’s all. So, no I didn’t have any specific feelings about the costume other than the series uniform did look very much like pyjamas to me.

I’m probably the only one in the entire world who liked the first movie costumes. They were very difficult – we needed people to help us get into them. Each of us had our own dresser, but aside from that I just felt it was a real snug fitting, I liked it. But I had no, I had no enormous – I would have done the part regardless. I would have done the part in jeans if they asked me to.