The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

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."

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

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. That instills in you a sense of determination.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.