The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful. He's a dancer and a gymnast so he knows how to plant the moves. He was always saying, "Are you okay?" When you've got that level of mutual consideration you form a family very quickly.

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.

It's always important to have the blessing.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.