If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

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.

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

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.

It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there's the whole chapter before where he's the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It's fantastic.

Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.