I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.

There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.