I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

And I think that, of course, there is some dysfunction of needing to be liked or noticed or to feel part of things, something going on there for most actors. For some there's not and I think they really struggle with it.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

Meditation has changed my life

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.