It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.