I've never been desperate to please my father.

I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.