I try to put myself into whatever character I play.
To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.
The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.
I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.
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.
Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when Im not working.