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.

I think Nelly [Ternan] actually has something very conservative about her, and she's very judgmental of (this other character's) situation, and can see that's about to happen to herself. So she judges it even more harshly [because] it's what she fears becoming.

I don't like when I look too cluttered.

[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

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.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.