The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the 'Jamestown' world immediately.
I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.
When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.
I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.
I haven't just been swanning around Hollywood, you know.
As a woman, you're expected to behave and model yourself in a certain way, but that's not right for everybody.
So often, when you're an actor, you're told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is, at best, tolerated and, at worst, not wanted.
All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.
I'd always wanted to act - since I starred in 'Alice in Wonderland' as a girl, that was it.
You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.
I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.
I don't know. I feel really lucky. I've just got work in the way that I really enjoy working. That's not too much fuss. Just getting up and going on set every day.
I rarely get recognised. Almost never.
I don't think I look like I do on the telly.
That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.
It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.
If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.
I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.
I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling... that's my inner spirit animal.
I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.
