Yes, because by the end of episode six, we really see how troubled he is as a person. Do you enjoy playing that moral ambiguity?

The only thing that’s interesting to play, naturally, is complication. If you’re saying what you mean, you’re just serving the plot. There’s nothing to do as an actor. So, the camera loves secrets. The camera loves when the character is saying one thing and means another. And the ideal situation is when there’s a third thing going on that the character doesn’t understand about themselves but we get as an audience. And I think we have all that with Lorca.

What can audiences expect going forward [in the back-half of season one]?

We’ve been laying a lot of seeds and everything bears fruit and everything comes to a very dramatic head. You can build bigger drama if you tell a 15-hour story. There’s a lot of crazy fan theories out there… some of them are right, most of them are wrong. But the stakes get higher and I think the surprises get bigger.

Do you have a message for your Star

fans? This is their legacy that they’ve protected for 50 years… What I really hope is there’s a whole new generation of people who’ve never heard of Star Trek, never seen it before, maybe even weren’t born when the last one was on. I just want people to have a good time watching it.

Hopefully, its subliminal message of hope and not to judge people by the colour of their skin, or their sexuality or gender, will sink in and change the world because it’s a pretty bad place at the moment.