I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

I made a conscious decision to live my life the best way I could and that meant to publicise myself as little as possible.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.