Will I be kidnapped by the Others after this interview? No, no. We still don’t know where the ­Others fall on the scale of good and bad. In the season two finale, Ben said that they were the good guys. Although he’s a bit of an actor, I don’t think he’s a liar, so I think he believes that.

If they’re the good guys, they have a funny way of showing it. Well, we don’t know what their master agenda is, do we? The Others seem to be living in extraordinary circumstances. They seem to be a people at war with a formidable enemy, but we don’t know who that enemy is yet. They seem to have a mission, and maybe all these things they’re doing are important. Maybe they’re trying to save mankind somehow, and we just don’t know how they’re doing it.

You’ve joked that you don’t get pursued by paparazzi. Has that changed? I don’t really get paparazzi. I’ve noticed the last couple of weeks that I get stopped on the street more by viewers, but I don’t have cameramen around. I never see those people. I keep kind of a low profile.

Do you think they’re afraid of you? I hope they are! [Laughs]