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It's An Interesting Arc. You Start With A Character [doctor Strange] Who's Likeable And Charming But Very Arrogant And Distant. He's Funny But You Can See There Are Massive Holes In His Life. It's A Very Painful Transition And All That He Becomes Is Tested So Quickly And Violently.

You Come Into This World As You Leave It, On Your Own. It's Made Me Want To Live A Life Slightly Less Ordinary.

I'm Always Keen To Use My Body In My Work, So I'm Looking Forward To The Motion Capture For Smaug. Both Gollum And King Kong Were Primates, Whereas I'm Playing A Serpent, So It'll Be Interesting - I'll Have To Tie My Legs Together, Possibly, Or Else They'll Be Kind Of Splayed Out To The Side As A Reptile's Should Be.

What's Not To Look Forward To? It's Like All The Actors In All Of The Films. It's Difficult To Get Martin Freeman And I In A Room Together. Imagine What It's Like To Get Myself, Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Elizabeth Olsen... These Extraordinary Actors Who All Have Careers Outside The Marvel Universe.

The Training Gave Me The Building Blocks To Get Through It. A Production Of That Scale, In A Theater That Big, You Are Going To Struggle To Keep Your Voice At First-run Perfectness. All That Work I Did - The Pull-ups And Pushups - Helped Keep My Body Fit. Hamlet, The Show, Is A Cardiovascular Workout Of About Three Hours, Never Mind The Mental, Soul-crushing Element Of It.