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 haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

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

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

Lines are very difficult to learn.