I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.