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.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.

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

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

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.