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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.
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When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
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I had plenty of vices growing up.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.