I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.
The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.
People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'
As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.
I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches.
I enjoy knocking around with the boys.
Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.
I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.
If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.
Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with.
The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.
I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.
What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.
I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!
I've always been able to look very different very easily.
There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.
