I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

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.

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.

There is the old boys' club, but there are ­people who are "conviction lobbyists" coming from the heart.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.