I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.

If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.