If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.

I know the crew so well, so I forget I'm being filmed. It's like cooking with a friend in the kitchen - you're talking, as you do, and maybe you're telling her about this wonderful way to prepare lamb chops - it's more natural, more honest.

Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.