"They’re the outsiders, the people that nobody will talk to. They just enjoy life, they go to the comic book store and they talk about comics. He’s quite a lonely soul.

He ends up putting on a mask to hide this shy side and then builds up his confidence. Cos behind the mask, no one knows who you are. I guess he’s seen as a geek. But he comes out of his shell.

He can still be this ordinary kid that no one wants to talk to but yet he’s one of the coolest icons out there. Because Kick-Ass becomes really, really famous on YouTube and stuff like that. And he’s quite tough around the town, around New York."