Watched it since I was a wee lad in England, hiding behind the sofa while John Pertwee battled the Silurians (spelling be damned!) Don't follow it much any more, but still a fan. As a kid it was Tom Baker that was the real influence on me. Although Pertwee was just so damn suave, as I get older I appreciate what he was doing a lot more.

It's all a matter of priorities. He had worlds to save and assistants to flirt with. I can understand not getting around to those boring administrative things.

Just lazy I guess. I often fancy the idea of getting myself one of those electric carts and becoming Orson Welle-ianly overweight. I'm with Davros on that one.

When I was in high school (14 years old?) Vincenzo Natali and his writing and directing partner Andre Bijelic were making

films on 8mm cine-cameras. They asked me to act in one of those films (Exam) and we really all hit it off. We then went up to 16mm as they got a little more proficient and it became a way of life for us. Talking about films, making films, that's really all I did growing up...certainly very little schoolwork anyway?! I learnt all the basic techniques of acting for the camera back in those days. I'm still amazed at how professional we all were about those projects, even though we were just little brats at the time. My first "professional" film was a psychological horror film called Pin. Still one of my favourite films to work on; shot it up in Montreal Canada. The Montreal crews are some of the coolest people in the world and the director was fantastic, patient and funny and taught me a lot of what you need to know in this strange business. I remember the first day of filming and I called Vincenzo and Andre to tell them about filming my first scene on 35mm film!

I've always been a computer nerd (Doctor Who was a clear give away I imagine!) When the Internet began to take off, I was getting a lot requests from friends asking me to put stuff together for them and decided to do web design, development and consulting on the side. I'd been doing computer programming as a hobby for a few years and the internet seemed like a good place to put it to good use. The idea was to specialize in Internet for film and television. My sister is a brilliant artist, and she was my graphic designer. I oversaw the projects and looked after the technical side of things. We still work together now and again, mainly on projects for friends. She's incredible at this stuff and Vincenzo is always getting her to put together presentations and such for him, he really likes her stuff as well. Since moving to Los Angeles I've found that I just don't have the time to pursue the business like I did while I was living in Toronto so it's pretty much on hold right now.

Worth was actually written with me in mind, so that would explain me getting the role ;-) The key with Worth was that he was the reluctant hero; he desperately wants to believe that he's responsible for nobody but himself. Because of his involvement with the creation of the cube, he sees himself as the enemy. I based a lot of the low key coolness of Worth on Andre Bijelic who wrote the script with Vincenzo (he's a much nicer, friendlier fellow, I hasten to add).

I think it was a 20 day shoot. Once we were shooting there really weren't many changes. The one big change was that we reduced the number of colours that were going to used for the rooms...the lighting took too long to keep the original number of coloured rooms!

I've always been a big fan of Vincenzo's films, so it never occurred to me that it might NOT work until we were about to sit down and watch the first screening...then I suddenly thought...what if it's no good?! Turned out I didn't have to worry! I loved the movie, and I still get a kick out of the fact that people enjoy it as much as they do. As much as I did like the film, I still would never have guessed that it would do as well as it has. I think the hardest thing about being in the film industry is NOT judging films. The highest compliment that I can pay to a film is if I forget about the processes and technical aspects of making it, and get just lose myself in the film...that's how I'd judge a good, well made film. Cube certainly worked that way for me, I forgot that I was watching something we'd been working on and just enjoyed the ride!

I'd have designed something that didn't actually kill anyone, it just annoyed them. Possibly make farting noises after they said anything. I'd have liked to see Quentin set that puppy off...a few times! ;-)

I'm a big fan of the ambiguous ending, so it worked for me! As far as the traps go, it's impossible to please everyone. Cube is a story about people fighting with themselves and amongst themselves, the traps and the Cube itself is really just another character that we learn about as we travel through the story.

I think that the Cube is the same for people watching the film as it is or the characters in it. Something different to everyone. As far as what Vincenzo was trying to get across, that's up to him to say...sorry!

I'm afraid that given the tiny budget and schedule there was no time and not enough film for many mistakes...if we screwed up, we pretty much had to move on anyway. Who screwed up the most? Certainly not me!! My favourite character is Kazan...what was up with him?! Memorable for me was showing up to shoot the first day and finding that nobody could get the cube's doors to open...that kinda messed with the schedule. They were too heavy to move and we had to shoot around them until we'd figured it out. By the end of the shoot, the cube was so battered, the doors would just drop out of the wall. Not quite the intimidating "killing machine" it became on film!

Cube 2 I have seen. That's about all I have to say about it, didn't do much for me. Nobody from the original film was involved in it that I am aware, certainly not Vincenzo or the writers anyway...I'll be interested to see what Cubers think about it.

Actually, two of my best friends are directors that I've known and worked with since their earliest film projects; Vincenzo Natali and William Phillips, they're the two that I've always stayed in contact with.

That was an amazing film to work on. It was directed by John Boorman, who directed Deliverance, Hope and Glory, The General and a million other amazing films. It was very early in my career and I had the best time of my life! I was playing the rich, lazy son of Dabney Coleman and Joanna Cassidy (from Blade Runner!) with the lovely and beautiful Suzy Amos and Uma Thurman as my sisters. Crispin was a blast to work with; he's a brilliant actor, hilariously funny, smart and strange, a real character.

Cypher is a stylish, paranoid tale of corporate espionage. It follows a bored suburban husband that tries to become a corporate spy, but with unexpected consequences. I play a small character role called Virgil Dunn, who is in charge of this huge underground computer system called the vault, but he spends his time drinking heavily and dreaming of the good old days when he used to interrogate spies for a living. Unfortunately for me I didn't have any scenes with Lucy! I did, however, make a point of saying Hi

(of course!) She is absolutely delightful, beautiful and lovely both to behold and to be around.

Vincenzo and I go back a million years now. I imagine that we'll work together a few more times! "Nothing" is a surreal comedy or a comic fable perhaps...about two losers who hate the world so much that it disappears. It's an idea that Vincenzo and Andrew Miller (Kazan in Cube), and I came up with a couple of years ago. We managed to sneak the shoot in while we were all free last summer. It's a brilliant script written by Andrew Miller and his writing partner Andrew Lowery (they're known as "the drews") It's going to be unlike anything people have seen before, that's all I'm going to say...I can't wait to see it put together! We're looking to get it into the Toronto International Film Festival this year...so that would be September 2003.

I just did a few days on William Phillips new action packed heist film called "Foolproof". That is going to be a fun film to see as well! I also just got back from shooting a flick called "Dark Light" for the Sci-Fi network down here. I show up periodically to kill people and make a nuisance of myself.

What is your ideal role that you would like to play? How would you like to be portrayed by viewers, as an action man or philosopher?

I love acting, nothing makes me feel more at home than working on a film set. I have the privilege of doing it for a living...there's no such thing as a bad role as far as I'm concerned.