'Look, just to p**s you off!" Iain Glen picks up his laptop and points it out the window of his Durban hotel room. "That's the Indian Ocean."
There is something decidedly, and slightly unexpectedly, mischievous about this particular great Scot. One of the last times he was in South Africa, he passed a sign for Bloukrans Bridge, one of the highest bungee jumps in the world. Half an hour later, he was jumping off that bridge from a height of 216m.
Glen is one of those tall, handsome actors whose name was often mentioned as a possible James Bond. At 59, he is unlikely to take over from Daniel Craig and although he might well have made a good Bond, he might never have had such a diverse career if he had been 007 in midlife.