I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.