This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.