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

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

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.

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.