Q: Do you like ballads more?

Freddie: There's school and stuff like that. [Laughs] There's these big exams I've got to take in May and June of this year so I'm working towards them and revising for that. But there's no other film that I've got planned for the moment, but maybe something in the summer.

Q: Are these O Level exams?

Freddie: GCSE’s (General Certificate of Secondary Education). I guess they're kind of big exams that we take in England. They help to get into universities and stuff like that, and then we take another two years for A levels which are only four subjects. So you want to do well in this one as well.

Q: How do you handle your schooling? Do you have a tutor on set and then you go to a private school in London when you’re not working?

Freddie: Yeah, I go to a normal school in London with my friends and near my home. I can go and walk in the morning which is nice. I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting. I mean school's important. You've got to keep going at it. Yeah, we always have a tutor who comes out from England to help us.

Q: You’re on record as saying you’re not sure whether you want to continue acting as an adult. How do you feel about that?

Freddie: No, I mean, I guess what I really said was that you can't be sure when you're very young what you want to do exactly when you're older. I’m sure I can change my mind and wake up tomorrow and think I'd love to try something else, love to do this sort of thing I didn't realize I wanted to. So you just keep your options open and at the moment it's great fun doing acting, but don’t set everything on doing it.

Q: What do you enjoy most about acting?

Freddie: I really like the people that you meet. They’re really interesting I think, and the top guys, the ones I've been able to work with. Also, you know, it gives you the opportunity to travel a lot and that's been fantastic. I've been to so many places in the world and I guess the one that's perhaps been the most amazing place [is] Cambodia and working in the jungles there with baby tigers. You'd never get that experience or opportunity.

Q: You’ve worked twice with Johnny Depp. Do you have any plans to do anything else with him? I’m sure you’d like to work with him again?

Freddie: Yeah, no, definitely. He's a fantastic actor and a great guy so I'd be lucky to do more stuff with him.

Q: Who else out there would you love to work with some day?

Freddie: Maybe just the same people again. They've all been so nice. There've been some pretty top people and it would be great to do the same stuff like that.

Q: Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi have talked about this book as being sort of their American version of a lot of British stories such as Peter Pan, Harry Potter, and Alice in Wonderland. Since this is an American story, do you approach it from a universal standpoint or do you have to change your perspective to see how Americans would see it?

Freddie: No, I guess we're not too different. Apart from the accents and stuff that I had to work on for the film, you know, I didn't have to go and live in America for ages to realize how to play the character. I think it's more important about their personality rather than where they come from in the world.

Q: What was the strangest direction that Mark gave you because everyone has had a story so far about some bizarre direction that he’s called out? Do you remember anything in particular that he said to you?

Freddie: No. I'm the only one to disappoint you in this way. No, he was always great. He’s a great director. He'd tell you what he wanted, so in that way at the end of the day, you knew what you'd done would be good.

Q: Was he funny when he was doing the Mulgrath’s voice? He said he acted out some of the ogres?

Freddie: Yeah, he did. He had the water’s whale.

Q: Water’s whale?

Freddie: Yeah, this sort of big, loud booming noise over everyone else on the loudspeaker as Mulgrath. [makes a sound imitating Mark’s version of Mulgrath’s voice] so he was interesting. But yeah, he was really fun, and he just made it a good atmosphere on the set.

Q: When you found out you’d be working with Nick Nolte, did you watch any of his movies?

Freddie: No, I didn't go specifically for that to watch any of his films. I mean I think he's a really powerful actor and he brings a lot to the film. He's got that sort of edginess about him and that makes it a little bit more scary.