After spending years playing a dwarf and a vampire, was it tricky to adjust to playing the owner of a tin mine? “Do you mean was it a challenge playing a normal human being?” He laughs. “Yeah I suppose so, but it was exactly what I was looking for. Ross is this dark, serious character who comes back from fighting to find that his father is dead, his inherited lands are barren and his tenants are dying and leaving, and his fiancée – whose ring he wore every day while he was away – has married his cousin. And his uncle offers him a lot of money to go away to London.