The role coincided with what Considine calls “a period of transition”. “Since being diagnosed with Asperger’s, I’d been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We’d been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it’s a very slow process. Working on Mr Whicher, I realised that the techniques were working. I don’t mean every scene was perfect. But overall, I felt so much more comfortable and confident and in control. It was as if all the hard work was finally starting to pay off.”