I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.