At home I wear my own clothes, no makeup and don't do anything exciting with my hair. I get to borrow pretty dresses for the red carpet, and have experts do my hair and makeup.

I don't really have one dish. I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite creative in the kitchen.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

For me, it was all about working with an inspirational filmmaker.

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.