Which were not about being applauded as you made your entrance to the opera. They were about crying in your room, feeling lonely, hoping for sex.

I chose this one for the volume of the rooms. When I was a kid in Paris we had rooms like this and there's a lot of objects that belonged to my parents and grandparents that then became mine. There's a picture of an armchair whose arms are sprouting hands; it's a rather scary looking picture that my parents were very fond of.

Here was someone who had a very true and affecting voice, who really did seem to be reporting from the front lines and doing it with the sort of guileless intensity of the talented innocent.

She's really clever and subversive. It's very difficult to describe glittery people and she does it very well.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

But I never aspired to be a soap opera star. I always wanted to do good dramatic roles on TV and in the movies.