I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

Ive got a soft spot for really cheesy 1980s ballads by Pat Benatar and Foreigner. When I'm having my make-up put on at 6am and I need to be warmed up gently, it's always Ella Fitzgerald or Nina Simone.

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

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