I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

It's very difficult to say anything in Icelandic. I can say "takk," which means "thank you." That's about all I learned.

I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.