“…but when asked about any pressure to bulk up for his big superhero role, he bursts out laughing. “Noooo! In fact, the less I did, the happier they were,” he says. “Klaus is completely not your typical cape-wearing, Captain America-style superhero, he’s the far, far end of the, let’s say, the male spectrum. He’s not necessarily a man, he’s kind of just this creature that’s not bound by traditional societal norms like ‘man’, ‘woman’, 'masculinity’, 'femininity’. He just sort of… is.
“That was important for me, and that’s not very superhero, because the concepts of quite reductive masculinity and femininity go hand in hand with your traditional superhero role. The less torso-building that I did, the better.”“