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