Speaking at a BAFTA Cymru event in London last night (March 11), the actor revealed that he struggles to let go of those he plays, such as in BBC Four's Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!.
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"I think to immerse yourself in anyone's life, it becomes fascinating as soon as you start to really get into everything," he explained.
"With Kenneth Williams, because he'd written diaries, that became like the rally hole that I went down and so anything he wrote in his diaries - or [if] he said 'I watch this film' or 'I read this book' or 'I listened to this music' - I could do and I did."
The actor - who has also played Tony Blair in The Deal, The Queen and The Special Relationship, David Frost in Frost/Nixon and Brian Clough in The Damned United - said the process turns you into a "weird hybrid of two people".
"With all of them you sort of become obsessed, and I was totally obsessed, I talked about nothing else for months and months, people became so bored of me," he continued.
"[I] used to have to spend a little portion of every day being that person on my own in a room and still sort of talk to people [like them]. I just had to be [them] a little longer."
The 46-year-old also made another impassioned defence of the NHS, saying that it is "a real line in the sand issue".
Watch a clip of Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! below:
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