It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job... I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It's more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s - t.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.

I have wrinkles here, which are very evident. And I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, 'You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?' I'd rather be the woman they're saying 'She's looking older' about than 'She's looking stoned.'

I had to grow the hair down there. But because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn't come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin - a wig - because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough.

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.