However, Ayoade doesn’t see himself moving to Tinseltown any time soon, blaming his inability to drive, calling the sunny weather ‘confusing and unsettling’ and saying he lacked the ambitious drive often associated with Hollywood stardom.

‘I went to a Catholic school so most ambition was beaten out of me at age seven. Ambition seems to be tied in with some revenge on the world, which I don’t really have,’ he said.