Alex Pettyfer plays super-spy Alex Rider in the Stormbreaker film.

And we asked you to send in your questions for Alex, and we put the best ones to him when he came into the Newsround studios this week.

 

I have done a paper round which lasted about two days. I got to a scary, abandoned house, went down a side alley to get there and put the paper in. I think it must have been an old man in his dressing gown who snatched it and that was me done!

 

I liked the fight scene obviously because you train so hard for it and when you get to do it, it's a release of tension.

 

It was a real surprise. I didn't really expect it when I got out the car.

 

Yes - when you go through such a long process of auditioning you kind of forget about getting it. It's more like you keep going up and having a little bit of fun. So finally when I got to play Alex I was like 'OK, cool'. I went for months and months of auditions.

 

I read Stormbreaker as soon as I heard I was going up for the part. But I wish to carry on reading all of them.

 

Tom Cruise or Robert Downey Jnr. I don't know why, I just really like them.

 

About 14. It just landed in my lap.

 

It depends how this one [film] does. Plus, I'm a tiny bit too old to play Alex now - I am 16 now and he's 14.

Great - I can't say much more than that. I loved working with Bill - he's a great comedian. I loved working with people who aren't on that list, like Jimmy Carr. Having days out with him was so much fun - you don't really get much done, it's more like having a laugh.

 

I didn't have a stuntman doing them all for me. I did quite a few, it was really fun, it was a new experience everyday. I did three or four weeks training in martial arts and jujitsu and I had to work on my body as well.

 

They were both fun. I think probably Stormbreaker pipped it a tiny bit because it was a lot more effort and I got quite a bit more reward. You get to see what your fans really think about you and how the film's going to do - at the premiere.

 

Any. If the script's right, any. I like action, though.

 

Daunting. But I was on my own for a couple of weeks so I didn't really see any famous people and it was all cameras.

 

Yeah, yeah.

 

Yeah - our name, for one! Plus a lot of other stuff. Alex is a really great guy with many other qualities - just like me! [He jokes]

 

Probably the pen. I'd really like to control someone for six hours.

 

Working with Mickey [Rourke] was quite a challenge. He was in character all the time and really brings out the best in you as an actor.

Probably not - because I know what you go through [as a spy]. But I'd love the action if every spy did that [what Alex Rider did].

 

Banana. I don't know, it's probably because bananas give you energy and I'm an energetic person.