You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.