Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.

Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.