Seeing someone you know be good at something is really appealing. Seeing how Darren Aronofsky behaved on set, it was another aspect of him, the director. He'd never directed me at home in the kitchen before. It was just seeing a whole other aspect of someone. It was really, really exciting. I loved it.

Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

Working with a green screen is easy. It's just like being a kid. But it's not nearly as satisfying.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.