"Sometimes people are very snobby," he says, this time without the giggle. "Sometimes people say, "Oh, I expect you don't want to be reminded of this,' about some film or something I've done. And I'm like, "Well, if I didn't want to be reminded of it, it would be a pretty stupid thing to make a huge film that millions of people are going to see.' You do things for very different reasons all the time, and there's nothing I've ever done that I really have not wanted to do or have regretted doing. Some things haven't turned out as well, but there are lots of reasons why you do things.
"It's about fun. I want to have fun; I want to challenge myself, but, above all, I want to enjoy things, and that can mean hanging on a wire dressed as a green alien, or it can mean playing Hamlet. Each thing is valid, and I just don't have any time for that kind of inverted snobbery, actually, about acting. People are threatened or confused when you do different things. But you just have to go on with your own thing and not let the bastards get you down." This time, he giggles.
