A lobster roll and a few glasses of fizz and I'm happy.
I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and Laura Charmichael, directed by Jamie Lloyd. It's one of my favourite plays by one of my favourite playwrights.
I've never lived in north or west London, so I'd like to come out of my comfort zone for a bit. But Stoke Newington is where my heart is, it's where I'm born and bred.
Episodic TV is notoriously brutal because just when you think 'I've got this, I know this character' you can pick up the script for series four and you die in the first episode - or your character suddenly transitions from a woman to a man.
I would like to have a baby.
I think there's still a feeling within society, entertainment aside, that women are less funny than men.
I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.
As a director I would love to work with Marion Cotillard. She's so magical.
No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is when you've dedicated your life to one character for five years.
I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!
I have no idea how to ever sell myself in a snazzy way.
What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.
I've had doors slammed in my face, I've been shouted at in my face in meetings when I've stood up for myself.
I didn't grow up with a lot of role models necessarily when I started out - there weren't many people who looked like me on TV. Not in England.
As an actor you can always blame the director or writer for negative feedback. But as a writer, you're the reason why everyone's in the room.
I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.
I hate when there's a band that you've loved and you go and see them and it's like only the really new experimental stuff from the current album.
I do think about moving out of London a lot, whether that's L.A., whether that's Margate with half of the other Hackneyites.
I think I've always felt that I want to do a very specific type of work and I've made informed decisions. You know, hopefully be part of a quiet movement or revolution.
It's wonderful that newer brands such as Fenty are making clear statements about being for all skin tones.
