I suppose the reason why I like acting is because I'm curious about human nature, and the less I know about a character on the page, instinctively, in a way, the better.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Sometimes you can incubate a character and that can take me a month just sitting on it imagining it, doing everything from sketching it to taking long walks, but sometimes you can see the character immediately. A lot of it is instinctive.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.