I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.

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.

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.

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.

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

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

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.