 In my life, I played along John Silver for Disney in a Disney series called Return to Treasure Island. I'd always wanted to play along John, and I played it after this. I raced in the studios to be in Henry V with Ken Branagh playing the Iron Duke Exeter, the power behind the throne. But I never have I known such artistic happiness and freedom. I felt completely alone to myself. I could do what I had a kingdom. I was playing this extravagant character, this huge, larger than life character, though you can't be larger than life. I ran to the studio. I have never had such enjoyment to be blessed with such a great part, which I think is a terrific film. Flash Gordon's a great film for the simple reason that I don't see it as camp. It's comic strip. And the wonderful sets, the beatific music, I think you know that Queen's music is sensational. The romantic music when Flash and Dale are together in that rocket when they're unconscious to that beautiful strings and the incredibly romantic, and the theme appears again when he's about to be gassed. The tableaus in the film, where he's going to be gassed, you know at that time you were at Star Wars from Black Skies. It's the first time you saw coloured skies. They did all these new inventions. So in that scene where Flash is going to be executed, the sky is green and purple and vermilion and all is beautiful. That scene, the tableau, the sets and the designs, was a completely comic strip I based my part on the comic strip part. Zoom, bang, wallop, whack and so forth. And a man of immense, Vultran's a man of immense bravery and care and so forth. And so I ran to the studios.