Paddy Considine interview for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II I wanted the chance to play him properly. I just thought I'm going to pretend the first one didn't happen. A lot has changed for Paddy Considine in the two years since he first donned Whicher's sideburns and tweed suit. His first film as a director, Tyrannosaur, a bruising study of domestic violence, won him the Bafta Outstanding Debut award. It also acted as a springboard for the career of Olivia Colman, who was seen as a comedy stalwart before Considine cast her as his lead. She has since gone on to grip the imagination of the nation in Broadchurch. There were people who didn't understand why I would cast Olivia Colman. But everybody afterwards said it was genius. As for his own acting, he calls it a "work in progress." I'm hugely insecure about it and I don't happen to think I am a really great actor. In fact, he has been seeing an acting coach for the last three years. He also studies great performances. In the last few years I realised that as an actor I knew nothing about technique. There's so much fear of it, that it's sort of poncey and rubbish. Tell that to Daniel Day-Lewis and Philip Seymour Hoffman. You don't just turn up and do The Master. Considine's opinion of his own acting will come as news to the fans who idolise him for unforgettable performances in his collaborations with Meadows, or Channel 4"s Red Riding. We can all do the big things - and I get quoted a lot from Dead Man's Shoes. But that's not a challenge to me. I can turn up and improvise in films, and people say I'm a really good actor and all that but I'm the last person who feels like I am.  Whatever it is that Considine has been studying, it's given him the confidence to believe that he can take on disparate, high-profile parts like Whicher and flourish. Later this year he'll appear in the final part of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy, which comprises Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and now The World's End. It's another big production but one that Considine describes as "just boys having a blast" rather than a torment to be endured, as he describes making the Jason Statham film Blitz a few years beforehand. His renewed buoyancy has come from two further things. When the first Whicher aired Considine spoke frankly for the first time to this newspaper about how he had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. It had, he said, blighted his whole career. Two years later he has, he says, been further diagnosed with Irlen Syndrome, in which the brain cannot process light. It was causing visual distortions and ultimately rendering him incapable of reading scripts. He now wears lenses full time to counter the effects. It's changed my life. I've become the person who I always knew I was. And now there's not enough hours in the day - I'm writing a new film, I'm writing music, I'm acting... I'm doing everything. I get up at six in the morning and it's not enough. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II is on ITV on Sunday, May 12 at 8pm