The power to pluck knowledge, engage in commerce, seek inspiration or commit crime at the four corners of the globe is on a desk in virtually every home in the western world. Now everything’s connected to everything else, has the computer reached its nadir? Is earth now one giant supercomputer, eerily prophesised in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series?

"There’s a old saying about sex and pizza," Olyphant says, "When it’s good its good and when it’s bad it’s still pretty good. I find that tends to apply to my job."

Of course, there are few more visible or beloved movie franchises at the commercial end of the spectrum for an Oscar winner to dive into in this day and age than the Potterverse