I Was The Boy That Turned A

[on Bbc's Sherlock] It's A Rare Challenge, Both For The Audience And An Actor, To Take Part In Something With This Level Of Intelligence And Wit. You Have To Really Enjoy It. It's A Form Of Mental And Physical Gymnastics.

It'd Be Really Nice To Wake Up Looking Like, I Don't Know, Jake Gyllenhaal And Think "let's Try This On For A Day And See How It Feels.

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

There Are Very Specific Demands, Though, In Television, And You Notice The Budget Constrictions. It's The Time Constraint And A Purse Constraint More Than Anything Else That You Notice. But The Ambition Of The Writing And, Hopefully, The Delivery Of It Gets Better And Better Because We Want To Outdo Ourselves To Keep Ahead Of A Very Expectant And Hungry Public.

I Don't Think I Could Form My Writing Into Scripts Or Novels. It's So Sporadic. My Writing's Pretty Poor. I Often Think, "who's This For?" Sometimes It's Impressions Of The Day Or My Life, Or It's Fiction. Sometimes It's About Things I Want To Remember, Or I Try To Write In Really Awful French.