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.

It is important to be conscious of the message that you're putting out there. It takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a movie to the screen. I do feel a certain element of responsibility to say something worth saying with it, as well as entertainment.

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

I was working in the States when Brexit was going on back home in England. I often think that maybe I got a little complacent on the situation since I wasn't physically there. That's when I realized, Wow, anything is possible.

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 born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic.