For someone who doesn’t like guns, you’ve handled a lot of them in films! For The Assassination Of Jesse James, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith, you worked with gun-legend Phil Reed...

"He’s an extraordinary man. This guy trained us to quick draw and shoot from the hip. He’s one of the legends in that world, a world champion of quick draw – you literally can’t see the movement and he can get off two shots!"

Did he get you to a place where you felt comfortable with guns?

"It’s just another appendage. I was surprised by how doable [shooting from the hip] was. You can do something that connects with the geometry of the brain. You can shoot from the hip and hit things! But I was afraid of shooting myself in the foot…"