When you're young, you say it how it is, and even your views are, like, 'This is totally the truth', 'cos you don't know any difference, so there's a real confidence in your way of thinking.

If you have a connection to someone, it doesn't matter what their exterior is.

For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way – or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all these dresses, and I'd say to myself, 'Okay, this isn't me. It's somebody else. So, who is this person?' Acting is the next level of that.

I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.