I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.

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

The only valid starting point is to understand what we all share - we have to find what we can all agree on.

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 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.

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

I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.