I Am Desperate To Do

Some Of The Greatest Actors Have Turned Superheroes Into A Serious Business: Michael Keaton And Jack Nicholson In Batman; Ian Mckellen And Patrick Stewart, The First Venerable Knights Of The X-men, Who Have Now Passed The Baton To Michael Fassbender And James Mcavoy.

I Always Found The Extraordinary Loss Of Life In The First World War Very Moving. I Remember Learning About It As A Very Young Child, As An Eight- Or Nine-year-old, Asking My Teachers What Poppies Were For. Every Year The Teachers Would Suddenly Wear These Red Paper Flowers In Their Lapels, And I Would Say 'what Does That Mean?'

It Is So Rare As An Actor To Be Allowed The Chance To Revisit A Role And To Go Back To A Character That You Already Built, And Lived Inside, And Understood. To Take It Further To Another Stage Is A Huge Privilege.

There’s An Iago And A Romeo Within All Of Us. There Is That Lover, And There Is That Sociopath.

Our Job Is To Represent The Truth Of Human Nature, Whether You're Playing A Tender Love Story That's Set In A Coffee Shop Or Whether You're In 'the Avengers,' Which Is Set In A Manhattan Which Is Exploding.