David Morrissey arrives for our interview at his publicist’s Soho office dressed in a sharply- tailored, Teddy-Boy era suit, his instantly recognisable features dusted with a fine, grizzly stubble. His 6ft 3in frame is entirely ‘metropolitan man’; he is affable, firm of handshake, and resoundingly apologetic for being a little tardy. Blame the late nights involved in his current theatre role – playing Marc Antony in a highly-praised contemporary version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Weird hours notwithstanding, “it’s nice for me to work in London because I could as easily be in Outer Mongolia or anywhere that the work takes me,” he laughs. “I keep a packed suitcase in the hallway.”
When he...