I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.

Being protective is important.

All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing.

I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.