at the time you were part of a new generation of actors as it's been called with albert finney tong courtney richard harris all men by the way but i think. you sort of did i came from liverpool because that's. and and then to london and then i was involved with the royal court theatre and a lot of actors from all over the country were there but different types of actors they weren't just from london there they were from all areas had all different accents and were accepted and you could feel there was an energy yeah there certainly was that but you have to understand that because i arrived in london at that time i thought that that was normal that that's how it was only quite a few years later on reflection did you realise my god that was such a lucky time because now inevitably.