Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There's no sense of something earned. I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.

I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.