You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

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.

I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking - it's based on her book about their relationship.That's what the film will be about - they were both incredible, strong, willful individuals and I feel like that Stephen Hawking himself would say that he wouldn't have survived without the influence of Jane Hawking, and they were an incredible team together.

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.

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've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible.