I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

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

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

The training gave me the building blocks to get through it. A production of that scale, in a theater that big, you are going to struggle to keep your voice at first-run perfectness. All that work I did - the pull-ups and pushups - helped keep my body fit. Hamlet, the show, is a cardiovascular workout of about three hours, never mind the mental, soul-crushing element of it.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

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

I tell my wife all my secrets.