I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

The best thing I've ever done for a girl hopefully is make them happy. Isn't that the most romantic thing you can do?

I love to ride horses. I've ridden since I was a kid so I got to do some riding, which was a lot of fun. But most of the stunts were left to the girls. It's the girls rescuing the guys mostly. So it was kind of really kick-ass, girl power. It was wonderful to watch. It was particularly sexy. They would come in and just slay in these choreographed pentagram of death fight scenes. It was pretty impressive.

Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.

One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.