I don't mind wearing a corset; it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.

Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

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.

My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.