When you make a movie like San Andreas where scope and depth is so important when a tsunami hits here, a building falls down there, elements based around 3D, it changes your perspective in terms of performance because you have to be aware of where you’re at in relation to the 3D shooting.

I definitely chose this role to be contrary to Superman. When you have a movie of that size it’s human inclination to pigeonhole someone and say ‘I now know what that person is’, and you have to fight against that as an actor.

Although things have evolved in the world because of the internet and it’s crazy living in LA with the paparazzi. There are parts that aren’t fun and seem unethical. The attention and the stuff that can seem overwhelming is just what comes with it. So you just have to learn ways to go on.