I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater, that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know,Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'