There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.