With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.