steiger, you know, because i knew that that was what i was going to be.r i wanted to be karl malden. i want to be that kind of actor because the great craftsmen and the great artists and... there's less pressure as well. and the work is more diverse. and i've never been fashionable. nobody�*s ever made me into the next big thing. so, therefore, my careerjust carries on and on and on. and what's extraordinary about you, and i talk about the busy—ness because you have so many different roles, it seems, and juggling different parts at the same time, it's the diversity. for example, right now, you've got two big projects coming out — one, a film, a sort of biopic about the singer amy winehouse who died tragically young, and you're playing the role of mitch winehouse, her father. and, at the very same time, across the pond in the us, you've made a mini—series for apple tv where you play the american revolutionary politicianjohn adams. yes. how do you get your head around such different parts at the same time? well, it was a necessity for me. because of my back