It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.

I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.

I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.