Zayn is a cool name.
— Kayvan Novak
The second series of 'Fonejacker' almost killed me. It was incredibly intense.
I'm good at winding up British people, but Americans are slightly different. A lot of them are more stoical. They're harder to get a reaction out of more of the time.
My nickname at school was Caveman. When I tell people my name is Kayvan, some insist on going 'Caveman?'
I don't worry about offending people - I think most people are a lot more robust than some other people give them credit for.
As an ethnic actor, I still feel I can't be in 'Downton Abbey' or in period dramas.
I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.
When I was 18 years old, I had a Saturday job working in a clothing store on London's Bond Street. I would fold T-shirts for ten hours at a time and get paid £19 for the privilege.
Generating comic material can sometimes get the better of you.
Just acting on someone else's set feels like a holiday, almost.
I look at my early career, and you know, when I left drama school, for a young Asian actor, you could either play a doctor on 'Holby City,' or you could play a terrorist in 'Spooks' and get to wear a nice shiny suit.
