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.

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.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

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.

Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.