David Morrissey webchat – your questions answered on working-class actors, Mo Salah and Basic Instinct 2

Yes. Sadly I was not there I was at home watching it on the telly with my son who was six at the time. At half time I turned to him and said it's over, this could be seven of eight nil, and he said to me 'no dad, we'll win this'. I thought he was totally delusional but of course now I think he's a genius. And he's a diehard Red like his dad.

I don't eat sweets.

In The City and The City my character can not see or hear anybody from the other city which is sometimes right next to him. I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination to see that in our everyday lives. We walk passed people all the time who are in terrible circumstances compared to our own. Sometimes we don't hear people in distress, closing our ears to things right next to us and China Mieville has taken those circumstances and pushed them in creating the worlds of Beszel and Ul Qoman. So, yes, I do think it has resonance with the way we live today.

No. Speedos.

Not at the moment. But I did love doing that job, which I also produced. Mark Billingham the writer of the books is a good mate, and we've often talking about redoing it. So who knows. I hope so because it is a character I feel there are more stories to tell about.

I wouldn't say it was a turning point but it was the job that I met the writer Tony Marchant who became a great friend and I later directed his piece Passerby with Jimmy Nesbitt. That was one of the first directing jobs I had and that started me on a career behind the camera as well as in front of it. It had a great influence on me in that way. I wish they would repeat it. It was a fantastic piece of work and some of the best writing on television.

I don't just wing it. I work from the inside out. I work from emotions and my relationships to other characters. The hopes and fears of my character. I'm not an actor who works from the outside in, getting the shoes right or the stance right or external things, although I know great actors who do do this.

Definitely moving from Liverpool to London. It felt so alien to me. I remember asking someone on the street for directions and they looked at me like I was dirt. That would never happen in Liverpool. I was used to being in a city where you sat on a bus, next to a total stranger and would end up talking for the entire journey like you'd known each other for ages. So I found London a very unfriendly place at first. But once I found my way around and got to meet some 'real Londoners' I made it my home and it has been that ever since.

Yes, I have great great memories of One Summer and Spencer Leigh and Ian Hart still remain great friends of mine. It was the show that made me fall in love with acting and the whole process of film making. I have great affection for it. Someone recently sent me the soundtrack on vinyl, and it brought back so many great memories. It's also where I met the great James Hazeldine who was not only my great friend but my mentor for many years, sadly no longer with us. He was one of the biggest influences on my life.

IT would have to be Rush, at the moment. I love Mo Salah and I think Liverpool have such an exciting team at the moment and a bright future, but they need to start winning stuff. No one can argue with Rushy's trophy cabinet. Here's hoping that Mo and the team can start bringing trophies to Anfield soon.

I didn't DJ when I was younger but I was king of the mixtape. That was my gift of choice. Instead of buying somebody flowers, chocolates etc, they'd get a C-60 (or a C-90 if I really liked them) cassette full of my favourite tunes. Having the chance to play tunes on a radio station and communicate with people has been a dream come true. I really can't wait to get back to it when I have some time off. Thanks for listening!

I am a goodwill ambassador here in the UK for UNHCR. I have been doing work with them to highlight the plight of refugees for a number of years now and I will continue to do that for as long as I can. I feel that the refugee crisis and how we handle it is truly the challenge of our age. Reaching out to people, helping people who are fleeing murderous circumstances is a no brainer to me. We've seen in history what happens to people when the world turns its back on them and it's up to us in the 21st century to ensure that that doesn't happen again.

One of the things I researched for The City and The City was what it was like for people living under oppressive regimes. How people can be controlled by subtle restrictions of their civil liberties, how the spread of paranoia can control people and how the fear of speaking out is crippling to any society.

One location on The City and They City was inside the Mersey tunnel. Although it was pretty grubby down there I never thought as a child when I drove to Wales through the Mersey tunnel that one day I would be filming a major TV series in that very place.

It was a wonderful experience all round. Great cast, great crew and brilliant audiences. I think The Bridge is a very special theatre and I will remember the experience for a very long time. What is amazing about Shakespeare is how even now he is relevant to us and can give us insight into human behaviour that illuminates the very situations and times we are living in now.

No. Absolutely not. I made great friends on it. I thought it was a great script. I know it didn't turn out to be the greatest film in the world but I've never regretted any job I've gone into. You learn from all your work but the knocks that you take whether it be from journalist, reviews etc all serve to make you stronger.

I am very worried about the lack of support for people from low-income backgrounds trying to get into the creative arts. It's always been a difficult profession to break into but I feel now with drama and the visual arts being taken out of school curriculum it's even harder. My advice is never give up. Join amateur dramatic groups. Get your friends together to read plays and scripts, make your own film on your phone, it's about knocking on doors writing letters and believing in yourself.

I would love to play the role again, however there are no plans to do it. Not to my knowledge anyway. He was a character that I felt had great depth and complexity. Not just a cardboard baddy. A lot of my inspiration for the role came from the books written by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga. I think these books are fantastic and I think it would be wonderful to do a mini series of them.