I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

I was working in the States when Brexit was going on back home in England. I often think that maybe I got a little complacent on the situation since I wasn't physically there. That's when I realized, Wow, anything is possible.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.