Tobias Menzies on starring at the National and how playing Prince Philip in The Crown turned him into a leading man

Munching on a Pret salmon roll between answers, Menzies is chatty and friendly today, his lean frame clad in a t-shirt and jeans, a baseball cap atop his stern, tight-lipped face. “I agree my face in repose is quite hard,” he told me when I interviewed him in 2019. “It has quite a forbidding look and you can definitely see that in the parts I’ve been cast in: anti-heroes, or villains, or aggressive, high-status personalities. The funny thing is, on the inside I’m not at all like that.”