It's not often that you get a chance in one role to do the glamour bit and then strip off all the makeup and reveal the real person beneath the façade. Usually, it's either a glamorous role or a raw, emotional role.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

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

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

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.

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.