It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

Fans believe they have a relationship with you, either through your TV character or, more reasonably, through the tweets you may have exchanged. In a way, you have gotten to know them. You learn about people's kids, families, pets.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in Doctor Who. Im not a Doctor Who fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.