Jason Spevack, Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, and Alan Arkin in Sunshine Cleaning Courtesy of Overture Films

Do you feel satisfied with your performance?
I guess... I mean you never know! Yeah, I mean it felt great. It felt exciting and rewarding to play her. And very challenging. You just try and do her justice, really. She was amazing.

Is yours a modern spin?
No, listen, my theory with period films is, when people say "She would never have spoken like that" I'm like "Prove it. Just prove it to me, then." So, I did make her very real, I made her very teenaged and I thought of her more as a rebel rather than a monarch. At the end of the day, she's someone who most people can relate to — she's in love for the first time, she's in a job where she's in way over her head and she has a difficult relationship with her mother. It's a very universal story. I understood her. I understood her deeply and I loved playing her. So we'll see how it turns out, I don't know.

And then you jump onto The Wolf Man next.
Yes, I'm doing it. February. I start in February.

Is it going to be a long shoot?
Whoo, that's gonna be long! I can't believe I'm donning the corset again. Yeah, that wraps up in June, but I'm not in it all the time. I think Benicio [Del Toro] has got a tough ride.

What are your genre preferences, if any?
I really like the kind of genre that Sunshine Cleaning is in, it's kind of a dramedy, it's hard to place. I don't really love horror but I love those two guys [Mark Romanek, who recently bowed out as director, and Benicio Del Toro] and that's why I want to do it.

Is it gonna be scary?
It's gonna be scary, it's gonna be scary. I think it will have quite a gothic edge and I hope people like it. Wouldn't you go see it?

Of course. As an actor, are you nervous about working with Benicio? He's so unpredictable.
I haven't met him. I hear he's great and he's very much involved with it. Anyone who is that excited and determined to make the right kind of film is someone I'm interested to meet.

On the director's commentary for The Usual Suspects, Bryan Singer couldn't stop talking about Del Toro's method.
He's so off-the-wall. I think that's what's exciting. He's discovered this whole bag of tricks. He's so exciting and kind of out there. He's perfect to play this part. I'm really looking forward to working with him.

So do you have more things lined up after that?
I'm lined up till June. There's a few things around, but the strike is determining what I'm doing. I try not to go back-to-back on films, I hate doing that. It always leaves me exhausted. It's a very surreal life on a film set and if that becomes your reality, you're in trouble. You've got to have breaks.