Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

Having just had a baby, I'm not going to be thinking about my arse.

God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.

I look very different from how people expect me to be... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking.