When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.