I love discovering tiny streets.

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.