A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.