Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

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

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

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.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

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.