Joseph Dempsie

Joseph: (On the Skins cast first meetings) We've all been doing bits and pieces here and there for the show, whether it's promotional stuff or just post-production things. We see each other about once a week anyway, at the moment. I'm in touch with everyone - by text - and we all got on really well on set, it was weird everyone being thrown together. The first day when we all met we were lumped together, and we thought 'dare we make friends?' It was weird, because we knew we were going to be friends with each other... everyone's brilliant, there's no tensions on set.

Joseph: (On how his real life compares to the lifestyle on Skins) When I was younger there was always the parties and the sex and the drugs were always sort of around on the edge of everything, but I think everything that happens in Skins does happen up and down the country, but Skins heightens and exaggerates it. You have to exaggerate some things, take it to the next level when other shows won't. That's what makes it unique.

Joseph: (About his character on Skins) I play Chris, who's the nutter of the group, really, he's a bit of a jack the lad, always up to mischief, but he's got a bit of a caring side to him as well, which is great. You find out in each episode that he's not really had a very good time of it and a lot of the humour that he brings to it is a front for what's going on with him.