If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.

Let's say that you commit a crime, you get caught, you might get sent to prison. It's going to be bad. But if you get caught spying, you're literally hanged the next morning.

I think it was the sense that Turn is a spy thriller, and that's a genre that really fascinates me, in general.

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.