 We're expecting some funny moments, what's your funniest or most memorable moment from making it? Pretty much every recording session you jam for about two to three to four hours sometimes and it's once every month spread over nearly two years. You can go in quite grinchy it can sort of interrupt you know you're working on another film or having a nice time not working for change and then it just sort of comes out of nowhere and then once you're doing it it's so much fun it's really genuinely a lot to find the very funny people at illumination including our director Scott you know whether it's whether it's just cracking a scene or a moment of character or just shooting the breeze and catching up with one another it's always a good time. That's such a long time you've spent being a grinch. It is but like I say with these weird gaps sometimes more than a month sometimes three months difference and a gap rather so it's it's a strange one I have been in for a long time. Does that make you feel like particularly attached to that character? Yeah a little yeah and to see it all come together is a sort of wonderful moment because you just think it's never going to end you're going to be caught back in for another session and maybe I will be before the film comes out it's been a wonderful role to play. Those Dr. Seuss lines must be a bit tricky to get your mouth round. They are but I think what's good about them is that they have like our good man Shakespeare sort of immediacy because they're rhyme they were written partly to encourage you know early literacy they do that all of them do that whether it's you know the places you'll go or any number of the stories I don't know it's part of the charm and the magic of it actually and there are some pretty tongue-twisting additions that we've added to the original. Did that make for any blooper moments? Do you remember any particularly? Yeah they're yeah constantly making mistakes one of the joys of being in a booth with that amount of time is that you know you can you can constantly right your wrong. What's it like to take over that iconic character? This is a very different cut of the same idea it's a very different spin on the original tale and it's an animation pure and simple in a very modern sense and rooted in some kind of a recognizable reality of ours as well as being as crazy as a Dr. Seuss story should be. It's got a lot of a lot of humor a lot of immediacy a lot of things that people will recognize but also fantastical things that will transport people to another place. How can we expect this version to be different to the ones I've seen before? It's very funny it's moving just endlessly imaginative and the level of artistry is phenomenal the energy of it is sort of unsurpassed I think it's just incredible drawing incredible artistry incredible technicians making these amazing environments and characters come to life great cast and a very very funny script. Now everyone has their own way of doing Christmas I'd love to know what your Christmas day is like. Christmas day is pretty English I guess yeah sort of family-orientated food presents and yeah some good cheer maybe a bit of church if the location's right for it and that's kind of it. Are you a presents in the morning person or after dinner? Usually sometime after the morning yeah. Any Christmas movies you like to break out? Christmas movies I like Scrooged I like Bill Murray and anything really. And what are you going to ask Santa for this year? Holiday. Where's on your list? Anywhere with time and solitude that's that's yeah that would be it. I have an important question for you yes would you rather spend Christmas with the Grinch or with Thanos? Definitely the Grinch yeah I mean you know the Grinch he's a converted creature by the end of it he's a different person to who he begins the story as and his heart swells from being two sizes too small to being just about the right size if not a size bigger so that'd be a nice person to be around if it's after this story but yeah that's a plot spoiler there we go Thanos not so much. Yeah I was going to say spoilers and you've got such passionate fans I would love to know what your most memorable strangest fan experience is. I think probably meeting them in Nepal in Kathmandu where I was all bearded up and wigged for Doctor Strange at his sort of worst and looking for salvation and karmatage and before we meet the ancient one doing some street scenes in Kathmandu thinking well we're going to wait with this because you know I don't look much like I normally do and a couple of mobile phones on the first day and then it just exploded and then it was literally like just running around like a circus of people and at one moment where we were just getting ready to set up a shot in in Durban Square and this is you know this is a country that wasn't it was it was not long after the devastating earthquakes so to see that much kind of joy literally within the same island as some of the temples themselves in that part of Nepal that has been ruined by the earthquake was amazing and surprising and just bemusing amazing to think I mean the reach of Sherlock in particular just it's incredible. What a juxtaposition as well. Yeah yeah mad you know and especially when I was trying to be this guy who's all alone Cutter if no one knows who he is at the Outlaw Lim and then everyone's sort of chanting my name in between takes very very very strange. I'd love to know what you're a super fan of. I'm a super fan I've never been obsessed about things I've kind of been a bit of a butterfly it's the same with comics and it's the same with actors and performances I think I'm kind of I am obsessed with Paul Thomas Anderson I'm obsessed with Daniel Day Lewis as well I think they're both extraordinary artists in our world you know I'm obsessed with Olivia Coleman I'm obsessed with quite a few people I suppose I haven't collected anything I haven't collected Olivia Coleman with such big Avengers fans what's the reaction been like to Infinity War to you? Amazing I my one wish is that I could have actually gone back into a cinema to watch it unfold for an audience either here in the States but I was pretty busy standing to work quite soon after the press tour so I didn't get that chance but I've just I've loved it yeah it's been it's it's immense and the success of it it's it's fantastic for the people that work so hard on it and yeah bring on bring on the next. What are you most excited about for part two? All of it. Not being able to keep it secret. People knowing what the hell's going on probably maybe.