I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.

If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.