I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Rudeness can make me angry.

Audiences can be very judgmental.