I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

There's always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.