Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.

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