I’d been auditioning for parts for years, I never got any better at it. I’m crap at auditions.

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

I think you only watch stuff you've done once because I don't think it's that beneficial to you. I think it's important to sometimes be like, 'What's that thing I'm doing with my face? I didn't think I was doing that.'

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.

I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.

I'm a feminist at heart, and I'm totally aware of why people have an issue with this show.