00:00I understand yourself and Juno were essentially the new kids at school.
00:05That's true, yeah.
00:06In what way was the set of Venom different to any other movie set that you've been on before?
00:10Was there anything interesting that might have stood out to you?
00:12Well, yeah. I think, first of all, the set itself was incredible.
00:16And everything was really practical.
00:19And that's clearly the way that Kelly had envisaged it.
00:22She just wanted it all to feel as real as possible.
00:26These incredible labs, amazing spaces.
00:29And then when we were doing all the effects, which you see in the second half of the film,
00:34these were all real explosions.
00:37So the VFX is there, but it adds another layer,
00:40because there was a kind of practical engagement with it on the day as well.
00:44So I just thought that her knowledge of the world,
00:47and having spent the best part of ten years with Tom working on it,
00:51just really gave a kind of real three-dimensional quality to just being engaged with it,
00:56which was a real privilege, actually.
00:58It's wonderful to see you part of this cast, but I know this is another Marvel property.
01:02Was there any complications in jumping on board, or was it just a seamless casting?
01:06Yeah, I mean, it felt pretty seamless in a way.
01:10It's a completely different character,
01:12and so it felt like the desire would be just to approach it as any other character.
01:19And so that was exciting.
01:22I felt very privileged to be asked to join it.
01:25I imagine you get stuck in in a lot of action films at this point throughout your career.
01:28Do you have any notable film-based injuries or scars or anything?
01:34You look at one and be like, oh, that's my Children of Men scar,
01:36that's my Doctor Strange ache, or something.
01:38Yeah, I don't, actually.
01:40I mean, I've been all right, I've been fortunate.
01:43I feel like the injuries really come, strangely enough, from doing Shakespearean plays on stage.
01:49So any Shakespearean actor has a few injuries from the fights in Romeo and Juliet or Henry V.
01:56I think you could do a whole documentary of Shakespearean injuries at this point.
02:00But this, although there are Shakespearean overtones in some of the Marvel universe, as everybody knows,
02:05I haven't actually been injured too much.
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