I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous.