The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.
I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.
I've never actually played a Zelda game. I've played other N64 games, like Goldeneye, Mario Kart, they were my favourites.
Is a second cousin, once removed, of Hugh Grant. One of Thomas's maternal great-grandmothers, Barbara May Randolph, was the sister of Hugh's maternal grandmother, Margaret Isabel Randolph.
At age 13, while accidentally viewing a sex scene in the film Love Actually (2003), he told director Richard Curtis that it was the first 15-rated film he had ever seen at that age.
Has starred in three movies with Colin Firth: Love Actually (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005) and The Last Legion (2007).