Every single pore - not on the men, but on the women - is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.

When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding.

See the opportunity in the misstep.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into knights and his godmother had given him a plastic Marks & Spencer knights’ outfit and [first assistant director] Tommy Gormley said that he could stand to protect me during the scene where Clive [Owen] is talking about the immensity of sitting on the throne. I’m actually looking through an archway at my son standing in his knights’ costume protecting me!