How difficult was it for you to become Julian Assange?
I was keen to do something that personalised and made him human; that showed there were universal qualities to him, which as a film that’s investigating him behind the front man for Wikileaks could expose or try and discuss. At the same time, I think it is easy to castigate him easily as either good or bad. I believe that has happened to him and that is one of the reasons he wants to pull away from the film, but also, for him, it’s about the message and not the messenger and I kind of respect that.

Describe him.
He’s a father, he’s somebody who’s had a childhood, he has a sense of humour, he’s got profound integrity and worked to create an idea into reality. I think a lot of people can at least empathise with that, and then discussions can evolve as to whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but he’s not context-less as a human being; he came from somewhere.