How evil is the Baroness? Is she good deep down?
She used to be good, but then a series of circumstances caused her to lose faith in life and in a lot of people she trusted. It’s been confusing at times but I think fundamentally she’s a villain, a femme fatale. She’s a pretty nasty piece of work.

Were you a GI Joe fan before you took the part?
I had no knowledge whatsoever… I thought it was about this one guy called Joe who was a GI! But I loved the idea of being in a movie that was action-filled and fun and different to anything I’d done before. I didn’t feel like a big villain until I got my machine gun. But then I thought, “Right, I can get into this!”