What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.