The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. His Donmar Warehouse credits include Cassio in Michael Grandage's production of Shakespeare's Othello alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ewan McGregor to critical acclaim and later Lvov in their West End revival of Chekhov's Ivanov. He reprised his role as the supervillain Loki in the 2012 movie The Avengers.

He played author F. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and he rose to prominence through a number of TV roles and more recently major film roles. Scott Fitzgerald in the Woody Allen film Midnight in Paris (2011).