I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.