A month after winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, Mark Rylance has got his kit off for marine protection awareness. In the pictures, the Bridge of Spies star has a smooth hound shark, plucked from the depths of the English Channel, thrown over his shoulder. He said: "I felt I was holding a very old being. Our skins were very different, mine smooth and soft, hers, like sandpaper, yet somehow similar as well. "Fish are a mystery to me. They are like creatures from dreams.