Reece Shearsmith

Reece: (On inspiration for new characters) New ideas come all the time. I chuckled to myself the other day when I heard a man in a restaurant. He'd ordered a lot of food and was re-jigging the plates with his friends when he said: 'Sorry Margaret, I've put grain salt on it.' I thought that was a bizarre thing to say - 'grain salt'. I expect I'll use that somewhere.

Reece: (On his most common misperception) I am grumpy. People mistake my quietness for being grumpy. It annoys me. People think I'm being difficult when I'm not.

Reece: (On his life) I still pinch myself that I'm having this fantastic life. Perhaps it's the Northerner in me, but I'm a pessimist; I still think that I'm going to be found out and that it will all stop tomorrow. You would think The League was one of the greatest showreels you could present to casting directors, but, in a weird way, we're quite anonymous because of the range of characters we play. So I'm still pathetically humble in auditions.