J: It�s my excuse that in fact I�m a character actor. You see, if I change the color of my hair or cut it all off, then I feel like I�m a different character.
L: Really� so what�s the strange thing you�ve had to do, or the craziest thing you�ve had to do for a role?
J: Um, well the time�the first time I came on this show, I just finished Road to Perdition and they� we had this idea� I don�t quite know why it came about, but we had this idea to recede my hairline like way back here [he demonstrates this as he explains it], so I had this 9-hour haircut where they kind of took all of this hair off. And that�s why when I came on to� I didn�t want to carry on, you know, grow it out, so I shaved all the rest off.
J: That was� that was a little strange. I wore a lot of hats when I was making that film [Jay laughs]. And then� they shaved off all my hair on my arms once [starts to stroke his right arm], and there�s quite a lot of that, actually� [he strokes the hairs on his arm and hand and the audience laughs]. They shaved all that off for A.I.
L: [points to Jude�s arm] And that was just this morning, look how much it�s grown back [Jude and the audience laugh]. That�s quite manly, there� [Jude mumbles something and continues to lovingly stroke the hair on his hand]. Now how is your friend Ewan McGregor? He�s� he and I� he�s a motorcycle guy too, and he�s�
J: Yeah, he�s just gone around the world.
J: [points at Jay] You got those, too [smiles].
L: Yeah, I mean it�s like�
J: Yeah.
L: Three in the morning.
J: [smiling] Yeah, yeah.
L: �Hey, great�� [shrugs as if to say �who cares?�, and Jude and the audience laugh].
J: He's going from Uzbekistan into Kazakhstan, yeah...Lichestan...
L: He took a year and he just rides his motorcycle around the world.
J: Yeah, I think he�s raised a great deal of money as well, and� but he didn�t have to turn into ZZ Top on the way, did he? [Jay laughs and Jude smiles] Did you see him when he got back?
L: He looks a bit odd. Did you hear from him along the way as well?
J: Yeah, we got�I got a couple of those 3 A.M. phone calls� and text, yeah.
L: Just �hey, what�s going on?� �Nothing, where are��
J: It�s pretty extraordinary to do. He put the pressure on me and his other friends to do kind of hugely macho things as well, though I kind of� you know, like I said, most macho thing I do is go to the shops, really.
L: Right, just go�
J: Walk my dogs [adjusts himself in his seat].
L: And that�s pretty macho.
J: [puts on a stern, �mock-tough-guy� face] Yeah� [laughs].
L: Now how was your summer, what�d you do? Did you just work all summer, or did you do something?
J: No, I haven�t been working for awhile. Um, I�ve been taking a break, I�ve got a few things� [chuckles] coming out, so I sort of put my feet up. What did I do� I went camping with my kids�
L: Oh, okay. Now how old are the kids? There were�
J: Two, four and eight [points downwards as he lists the ages].
L: Two, four and eight, okay�
J: Yeah [grins slightly, biting his upper lip].
L: Where�d you go camping?
J: We�I went camping in France, my parents have been living in France� for� 12, 13 years. And they�ve actually just bought a new place that they�re renovating; we went camping in the woods near to where they live. Like proper camping, we had fires going�
L: Right.
J: Cooking on a fire, washing in buckets of water from the streams [he subtly acts out all the actions as he lists them off], it was really good.
