Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!