Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A