Also, from a technical point of view, as you're standing in front of a microphone all day, it's quite a good idea that I should play a laid back sort of character because if he was too frenetic, I'd be exhausted by lunch!
He has all those different aspects to him, so I can more or less decide as a performer how I'm going to deliver a line in a particular scene, or play a particular scene in total.
He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?
I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.
If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?
Kaston Iago wouldn't say that. He thinks he's the hero. And that's the way I play him anyway, he thinks he's right. And generally speaking, he is.
To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.
Well, I shouldn't say this, really, but I always believed, right from the very first story, that Iago was the best part.
Paul's father was a pharmacist.
Paul is 5' 11" (1.80 m) tall.
Paul originally auditioned for the part of "Blake" in the science-fiction series Blake's 7, and was later recommended for the role of "Avon" by Vere Lorrimer.
Paul had to learn to play golf for the part of a professional golfer in a TV programme. He still plays the sport occasionally, mainly for the children's charity called SPARKS (Sports Aiding Medical Research for Kids).
Paul's real surname is Birkby. When an agent advised him to change it to a more easily recognisable and pronounceable one, his father suggested the name Darrow, after the American attorney Clarence Darrow.
Paul got his first cigarette from his uncle. He was five.
Paul admitted in a 2004 BBC interview that he was hooked on the British drama soap "Footballers' Wives", and he would have liked to be in it.
In 1995 Paul Darrow appeared with "Doctor Who" actor Sylvester McCoy in an episodes of Hollyoaks in which Paul played a judge and McCoy a barrister.
Colin Baker guest-starred in the Blake's 7 episode "City at the Edge of the World" in 1980. In return, five years later, Paul had his second guest appearance on Doctor Who in the story "Timelash" when Colin played the Doctor. Paul's first guest role on Doctor Who was during Jon Pertwee's era in the story "The Silurians" in 1970.
Paul made a cameo appearance as James Bond's doctor in the 2002 motion picture "Die Another Day", but he was cut from the final film.
Paul Darrow was a close friend of Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, and creator and writer of the Survivors and Blake's 7 science-fiction series.
Paul Darrow, Andrew Mark Sewell, and Simon Moorhead acquired the rights to the sci-fi series Blake's 7 from Nation's widow in 2003. The plan was to revive the show as a mini-series, starring Darrow in his original role as Avon, but due to disagreements about the direction of the show, he has since left the consortium.
Paul Darrow stars as the cynical character Kaston Iago in the Magic Bullet's Kaldor City audio series.
Paul is well known to be accident-prone with props, especially with his guns on the set of Blake's 7. In fact, he broke so many of them, the team built a special gun with an aluminium core for him. Paul suspects that the transfer to a more solid weapon model in later seasons resulted from his accidents.
On December 20th, 2005 Paul Darrow gave a 30 minute video interview, in which he talks about his role as Kerr Avon, the character he played in the British science fiction series Blake's 7 twenty-five years ago. The footage, entitled Forever Avon, was recorded at the London Science Museum, and is included in the Blake's 7 season 4 DVD box set.
Paul Darrow has published three books up to now (2006): Avon: A Terrible Aspect (1995) The Novel of Queen: The Eye (1997) You're Him, Aren't You?: An Autobiography (2006)
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