Martin Freeman: ‘I’m one of few people in my family who would ever unironically go into a church’

‘Am I going to be Tim from The Office until I’m 60?' Martin Freeman. Photograph: Dean Chalkley/Camera Press

I was academically quite unengaged at school. I was a smartass and spent a lot of time in detention for petty things. I really do wish I’d applied myself a bit more.

I’m not a practising Catholic, but I still like popping into churches to offer one up, light a candle, do all that stuff. I’m certainly one of the only people in my family who would ever unironically go into a church.