The actor told Time Out: “I’m Smaug in The Hobbit, I’m in Star Trek Into Darkness and I play Sherlock. I think I’d get torn limb from limb if I ever went to Comic-Con.”

Star Trek Into Darkness is released in UK cinemas on Thursday.

> Find out all the details on Sherlock‘s new series in our news summary.

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> Buy the Series 1-2 boxset on Amazon.

> Buy the BBC’s official book, Sherlock: The Casebook, on Amazon.

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