My First, Big, Silly Role At School

I Can’t Stop Traffic On Fifth Avenue, Not Unless I Walk In Front Of An Oncoming Cab.

There's A Huge Amount Of Footage Of Julian [ Assange] Online, But He's Usually In Presentation Or Defending Mode, Talking About His Cause, Or The Revelations Which Wikileaks Have Brought About. There's None Of Assange Relaxing Or In Private Mode. There's None Of The Personality I Tried To Give Him Behind Closed Doors [in The Fifth Estate ].

I Had To Imagine Myself Into Certain Aspects Of [julian Assange] Character For Our Version Of Events. That Involved Extrapolating Based On Clues In His Biography, His Public Persona, Photographs, And Other Accounts Of Him By People Who Encountered Him During That Extraordinary Period From 2007 To 2010 That We Charted In The Film [the Fifth Estate]. So, It Involved A Lot Of Research But, Sadly, No Contact With The Man Himself.

I Always Get Self-conscious About What I Look Like In A Film, But Less So If I'm A Character Very Far Removed From Who I Am. Then I Just Worry About The Performance, And That's Equally An Odd Experience.

Even Though Doctor Strange Is An Established Character, When You're Doing An Origin Story There's A Lot Of Room For Manoeuvre.