I gravitate towards anything that feels challenging to me, that feels like it's gonna be saying something a bit different and new to the audience, and anything that moves me. I do movies that I would want to see, so I don't necessarily gravitate towards any genre in particular. I just try and do the best work I can and also try to keep the audience guessing.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I think the only way we have a chance to not make the same mistakes again, is to historically understand the bad behavior and mistakes we've made previously.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.