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

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.

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.