When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone.

I haven't had ice-cream in a year, although I did have a slice of pizza. People don't realise that when you're shooting a movie it's only three months to get in shape for.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

What I enjoyed about being in the world of Jessica Jones, as Luke Cage, is that I wasn't front and center because it was Jessica Jones' story, but it allowed me to find the character from a different perspective.

When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.