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.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

I love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I also do scribble but to limited success! I think I find being in a room on my own quite hard, which I think a lot of actors do because what we do is so inter-active. It's a very supportive profession... despite its reputation for being highly competitive it's actually one of the most collaborative professions you can do in the arts because you're always working in a team.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.