It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?