By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.
A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.