I guarantee this is the most charmingly angst-ridden and utterly honest actor you'll hear from today. Chatting with Martin Freeman about his new film, "The Good Night," directed by Jake Paltrow (and co-starring his sister Gwyneth), it's immediately clear that the former star of "The Office" can't help but be forthright about the business and the challenges he faces in his career, not to mention nudity, and premature mid-life crises. Oh and he has the mouth of a sailor too.

MTV: What was your initial take on the script?

Martin Freeman: I was just about to finish "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and I got the script from Jake Paltrow. I didn't know him. I just liked it. It was the combination of liking it and being surprised that you'd been sent it in the first place. Apart from "The Office," I don't know what Jake would have seen of mine. I'm guessing nothing. Read more...

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ended with Zaphod, Trillian, Marvin and Arthur traveling toward Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe - oddly appropriate, perhaps, given that the Great Prophet Zarquon will return before another movie adaptation of Douglas Adams' sci-fi comedy, said "Guide" star Martin Freeman.

"There isn't [any possibility of a sequel] at this point," Freeman said, insisting that a sequel was deader than Hotblack Desiato (and not just for tax purposes). "I found that out from the horse's mouth, [director] Garth Jennings. I had dinner with him and he said [the first one] just didn't do well enough." Read more...