They are amazing people to work with, absolute gentlemen, because they’re so good and polite and generous and all those things. It’s hard to think of anything specific… Very early on I was stepping backwards in one scene, and Ian McKellen went [in a McKellen voice] ‘Darling, me and Derek have been doing this for years, don’t try and upstage me’ [laughs] and I wasn’t trying to, I was just nervous! It was just one of those things where you think ‘Oh God, on day one’.

And your heart drops through your stomach…

Yeah, though he didn’t mean it. They were just testing me out I think.

Speaking of stages, congratulations on the Olivier award for Spring Awakening. Do you have plans for more musicals?

No, I don’t think so. I’m not really equipped to do musicals. That was a very different one in quite a specific style of singing and acting. I don’t think I’ll probably do a musical again. I don’t know, I might.

You don’t fancy a part in The Lion King?

No, no, I’m alright thanks. I’ll do a play, but I don’t know about musicals.

You are a singer though.

Yeah. I’ve got an album coming out at the end of the year. It’s called Dinan, which is a place in France.

In Brittany?

That’s it. It’s my first full album, because I did 3 EPs over the last two years, but I’ve been recording this album for a while, trying to fit in the time. Hopefully that’ll be out towards the beginning of next year.

Your Our Girl character in fact, Smurf, had a reading from his namesake, Dylan Thomas, from Under Milk Wood at his church service, which is fitting as you’ve a part in the new TV version for his centenary…

I’ve already done it. It was a BBC production that got all the Welsh actors in to do a little bit each.

That’s been done as a straight movie, it’s not animated or…?

No no. What they wanted to do was a co-production with BBC Wales and National Theatre Wales where they had loads of different Welsh actors and performers from Tom Jones, Matthew Rhys, and Michael Sheen and that kind of range of people and we all just did little bits, not as a performance but just to camera, but it worked really well and they went to us, so they’re off in L.A. with Michael Sheen and New York with Matthew Rhys, but it really works, I thought that was fantastic.

I have to ask, because it’s a tradition on our site. What’s your favourite Jason Statham film?

Snatch? Is he in that? Yeah, he’s in that.

Er, speaking of which, do you have a particularly memorable line from Misfits? And remember, this is a family site…

“We have to bury the bodies under the foundations of the environmental monitoring station before they pour in the concrete” or something like that! I still remember it, because it was so hard to say and also because there was all of them lot laughing in my face, it was very hard to say.

And from Game Of Thrones?

What have I said in that? Well, I won’t say any of them, but there’s some beauties coming up in the next series. I’ll leave you with a bit of intrigue!

Iwan Rheon, thank you very much!

Iwan Rheon stars in Our Girl, on DVD on Monday the 3rd of November.