I am never going to please all 100 million people who read the book. I'll be lucky if half that number are happy with me playing Christian Grey. I know there are campaigns of hate against me already.

I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the tone for the movies [Fifty Shades of Grey] so I felt a little more freedom this time and it probably made it more enjoyable.

I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.

I'm still not aware that I'm good looking.

I was and still am a massive fan of [Murphy] Cillian's work - always have been. Obviously he's a great deal older than me, so I've sort of grew up watching Cillian's work. But I'm very much a fan.

I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.