It's an interesting theory, ... But you can put British actors in silly clothes and not look ridiculous. Now if the Brits were to make a western, it would fall apart.

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Actors then were just louts, hangabouts and wandering troubadours doing traveling plays.

The times themselves were very brutal.

They still had their mores.

He sees the world in black-and-white. That allows him to drink and fight; it makes life alive for him.

They had no body shame, ... And this gives you the license to be fully aggressive in battle or in loving.

It got bloody and it got messy. There was a huge amount of work done by a tremendous Italian stunt team ... and we'd be thrown into the melee.

Of course, your best method for pleasing a woman is the warm beating heart of an enemy. I mean, women will say they don't like it, but they do.