"Since I've stopped doing Merlin I've got my social life back," he says, before adding with a twinkle in his eye: "It's nice to be back in the pool, as it were."
Much of his mail is now from child fans of his Merlin character, Gaius. They may soon be disappointed. With a busy year of directing ahead, he is not sure how much of a role he will have in the next – fourth – series of the drama, which has just been commissioned. "I'm having lunch with the producers. I'm just not sure how much time I've got for it. I'm an associate director at the Sheffield Playhouse and I like that. I'll be doing something [in Merlin] but I'm not sure how much yet."
Read the full interview here: The Independent
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