Yes, he’s a fighter pilot. He’s the captain of a massive naval airship so in the first film, I do a little bit of steering, a little bit of rescuing, shit like that.

He’s quite flash, he has a few jokes – he’s like a naughty, sexy uncle. That’s the way I’ve been told to play it.

Are you wearing a costume or a mocap suit?
It’s not mocap with us [the Red Martians]. We’re humanoid, we’re in costumes, but there are other actors who are playing pure mocap characters.

It’s hard to talk about it because I don’t really know what it’s going to look like. So much of it is in Andrew’s head and with his designers.

We’re on a real set but it’s surrounded by green screen so there’s going to be stuff out there that I have no idea what it is but I know it will be extraordinary.

How would you describe your costume?
Armour. [Laughs] It looks cool. It’s very Dan Dare.