I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where there's a definitive sense of something. I go one way and then it opens up into a million different ideas, and somehow, when you look at the art, Buddhist art, or particularly Tibetan art, you know, it's a similar thing. All of a sudden there are a million lotus leaves and you're following one to the next and to another, and I related to that, and it felt simple and easy to me. And it made me feel smart.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.