Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

As an actress, you're living something through the duration of the play and its geography. I've always seen writing the same way. It's like somehow I'm moving through the terrain of the book as a performer.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let creators do their thing and live or die by their own muse. They certainly allow us to do that.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.