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There are these guys still out there. We're all, if we're honest, still thinking like that and feeling like that. It's the jocks in us. And yet the women have changed a huge amount, and the fact that we got such a great cast of women, I think, proved that we were making a film actually about stronger women. It just seemed like there was a lot of room there. It was like stepping into the shoes of playing a Hamlet again.
You've been on a break since March. Do you worry when you don't work for long periods?
No. It was great. ... There was a lot of stuff in my private life that I wanted to sort out, and I wanted to be at home because even though a lot of these films shot in London, funnily enough, it's always nice just to be able to come back and be with the children (Rudy, 2; Iris, 3; Rafferty, 7; and stepson Finlay, 13), be at home, read books rather than scripts.
But you were still in the spotlight. The paparazzi seem to always get you. Do they ever leave you alone?
No, they don't. The dilemma is finding somewhere that suits everyone in my family and not just me. I mean, I'd be out of (London) like a bullet from a gun if I could, but my kids are very happy at school there. So it's a tricky one.
Are they aware of Daddy's celebrity?
They're just aware of ass----- hiding behind trees with long lenses. That's all. (Laughs)
