I so wish we would fund it properly, but I don’t know what we have to do to make the government wake up.

They are fragile, exhausted and have private lives, but we conveniently forget that. It’s easy to forget the people who do are human. I had to really think about what it’s like to work for the NHS. She came back to life when another doctor put his hand up inside her ribcage and massaged her heart. It was horrendous, even in a pretend way. There was a really gory scene where we had to deliver a baby from a dead woman. What was the goriest operation you had to perform in This Is Going to Hurt? Did the series change your perception of the NHS? Dantadanta and CarterP Photograph: Ludovic Robert/BBC/Sister/AMC Spies fascinate me and I’m fascinated by my grandad. If we could find a proper story, I’d be very interested. My Auntie Ingrid and I are trying to research it, but we keep coming up against dead ends. After the war, he changed his name to Whishaw. We don’t know how he got to work as a spy for the British. He had a Ukrainian mother and a German father.

Can I set you up with a scriptwriter and your next role? jesseriley Your grandad was a British spy in the German army who changed his name from Stellmacher. When I’m old, or no one wants to give me an acting job, I’m going to pick it up again, because it’s something I still love. I loved painting up to my early 20s, but completely dropped it.

I think I’ve got too much energy to work in a bookshop. Do you still think you would be working in a bookshop or as a painter if you hadn’t made it as an actor? EtienneJ

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