I want to record 'Goyescas' by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

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• Christian McKay:

  I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

• Christian McKay:

  Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting

• Christian McKay:

  One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands,

• Christian McKay:

  I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instrument

• Christian McKay:

  People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

• Christian McKay:

  Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

• Christian McKay:

  I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers

• Christian McKay:

  It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on your

• Christian McKay:

  Some actors play themselves, don't they?

• Christian McKay:

  Now I have an agent, a manager, a lawyer, a publicist, all the king's horses and all the king's men