" 'Cos Russell told me to, the black-hearted swine. He thought, ‘Big frocks, big hair—let’s give it to the show’s token straight for a laugh.’ He gets bored in Cardiff, you know. The brief was just an e-mail, assuring me that he’d want me back for Series Two, and asking if I had any interest in Madame de Pompadour and a clockwork man… which I didn’t, really. But I’m a professional, me. Being honest, I wasn’t all that sure who Madame de Pompadour was. Could’ve been Hitler’s mistress for all I knew. Or Hitler."