I’m sort of a fan of people who give bad first impressions,’ muses Will Sharpe. ‘And then it’s like, “No, but hang on, who are you really?”’ On a warm spring afternoon, the 38-year-old actor, writer and director is contemplating the kind of characters that make him tick. As a child, he recalls, he was always moved by antagonists who unexpectedly soften, like Cera the triceratops from The Land Before Time. ‘Anything like that, I’m like, a real sucker for,’ he says emphatically. ‘And also people who are, quote-unquote, atypical in some way, you know?’ He pauses. ‘I mean, I guess everyone is to a degree; but like, a slightly more pronounced version of that.’
Sharpe himself is certainly unique. One of Britain’s most idiosyncratic stars, his career has been…
