You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

I think I was quite lucky in that I went to an all-girls school. I was never put in an environment where I had to be the other - the woman as opposed to the man - all the way through my education. I was never made to feel that way at home.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by recovery from childbirth.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.