I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?

I live quite an unsettled life.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.