It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I've done a lot of very low-budget indie films, so it was just really exciting and fun to be doing a film where there's a lot more time and these huge, vast sets. I was like a kid in a playground. It was amazing!

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would be ostracized. The rigid societal conventions meant that it was difficult to live outside of them.

Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

It was lucky that Ralph [Fiennes] is someone who understands both film and theater and we were able to understand that scene so well before we took it to the set.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.