I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day.

And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

Never fall out of love with life

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.