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Q: They say size doesn’t matter, but were you getting teased about how endowed you were?

A: Of course, but I’m not saying how much the computer helped. Actually, I didn’t fully expect the interest that Dr. Manhattan’s genitalia has received. But I understood his motivation for baring it all. Why would the guy with all this power really care about a uniform? He doesn’t need to obey society’s constraints because, if he wanted to, he could destroy society. So I think he kind of feels like, ‘You know what? I enjoy a good breeze on my private parts.’

Q: Not to get too personal, but were you unclothed on the set?

A: I am naked often, but was not naked that I recall during filming. I wore a pair of what were pretty elaborate pajamas and they were studded with about 1,200 blue LED’s so that Dr. Manhattan would glow blue. There were also motion capture electrodes on my body and I had over a hundred on my face. They all sent data into a computer that really created the Dr. Manhattan you see on the screen. My performance was basically just laying the groundwork for the CGI.

Q: Is that an acting challenge?

A: I guess I just took for granted that when you’re playing a character you have their coat, you have their watch, you have their glasses or whatever. And those are all things that are quite useful in helping your performance. When you take them away you have to pretty much rely on your imagination as your only real resource, and I realized mine had become a little rusty.

Q: Dr. Manhattan is a little conflicted about the dividing line between right and wrong, isn’t he?

A: I’ve thought that about almost all of the roles that I take. I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous. Those are the characters that I find fascinating. I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don’t think I’d be very good at playing one. When you’ve got Harrison Ford up there on the screen you go, ‘I’ll watch him run from anything.’ He’s compelling. But you wouldn’t want to watch me do that.

Q: You’ve always worked hard to protect you privacy off screen, which isn’t easy.

A: You can’t possibly understand the effort that goes into not doing things — from interviews to magazine covers. But it’s important to me not to give everything away. I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don’t want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I’m playing.

Q: So being famous isn’t number one on your wish list?