Dexter Fletcher

Dexter: (on Band of Brothers) On the first day of our boot camp Tom Hanks gave a speech to us all underlining the importance of what we were about to embark on. He said 'one day, you'll be sitting in an airport somewhere and someone will come up to you and say 'you played my father. Thank you for telling his story'. That had a real impact on me.

Dexter: (on his preparation for his role in Band of Brothers) We had to spend a night in March in some bombed out houses. You did your two hour watch and then you got a couple of hours sleep. It was freezing. But not being shot at made it easier.

Dexter: (on his role as Sussex in The Virgin Queen) He must have been a fairly duplicitous kind of bloke, or extremely shrewd, to be able to align himself with the power and not get his head chopped off