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 think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

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

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.

As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think we are. There’s this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.