David Morrissey: I love being a grandad but I don’t want to be an old man

Morrissey, 61, hasn’t always been so upbeat. “When I started out as an actor my goal was authenticity — still is,” he says. “The mistake I made was I believed authenticity could only be found in the dark, in heartache and pain. Anything that was funny, frivolous, joyful or loving could not be authentic. If I wasn’t banging my head against the wall or in pain then the work itself couldn’t be right.” That’s because, he explains, he was using work as therapy. He grew up in the working-class Kensington area of Liverpool in the late 1960s. His mum worked…