It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.

I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.

I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.