You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks!

I don't like junk food, just because I don't like the taste of it, but I don't go to the gym - ever.

I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.

To make lashes curl better, take a hair dryer to your eyelash curler for one or two seconds before using it.

I think kissing scenes always feel awkward but there's just no way around it. But it's a part of the job.

I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.