As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it's not all about him.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally." I'll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.