I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"