I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

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

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all.