It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.