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

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.

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.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.