I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

I just want people to focus on the performance.

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.