It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life - he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage.

I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting.

I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.