The Importance of Personality Erased by Your Role

I wasn't really ever at the highest level of politics although I did walk around the corner into Tony Blair before he went to give his speech. So that was my only interchange with high level parts, thinking that Tony Blair was a bit like Tony Soprano of Australia. And then that experience, I mean, later Armando Iain, who she's picked you as, who's developing the thick of it and then the film in the loop. Do you think that experience was particularly valuable or could you have picked it up from the culture anyway?