Another string to you bow is being a licensed pilot, so you can actually fly your family around!

"The idea was we could throw the kids in the back of a Suburban and go somewhere – have some freedom. Then there’s a real sense of accomplishment. Flying is an amazing marriage of human ability with nature and machine and any one of those things can go wrong at any moment so there’s a real call for focus and attention up there.

"I’m telling you, it can go wrong seriously fast. But I highly recommend it. Just to be 40 and still able, I guess, to achieve things that are personal to you, a personal goal… It’s rewarding."

You’ve now been in movies for 25 years. How have you changed as an actor?

"Well, we can’t be followed, which is a plus! I enjoy the craft of it more than ever. I am much more experienced now so I have a process and can get to what I find interesting quicker; I can cut out the cacophony of things that sometimes come with a production or a character or a film.

"Acting also now means more to me because my kids are going to see my films. I want to do them proud."

How do you choose your projects?
 
"Well, to me, first and foremost, it’s a directors’ medium. It’s all about the storytelling, it’s the most important thing to me. I look for directors with a strong point of view, then I feel free – it frees me to go and try anything because I know I’m in proper hands that are not going to abuse [me]. I can try many things until I find that line, that vein, and start following it…"