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I Worked With John Maybury On The Jacket And I Think He's An Extraordinary Film-maker. I Read The First Drafts Of This Piece When I Was Working On The Jacket, And We'd So Fallen In Love With Him That We Thought He Was The Only Person That Should Direct This! We Wrote Poems For Him, We Sent Him Champagne And Cakes. Four Years Later He Finally Read It.

Half Of My Mum's Family Is Welsh. I Remember When I Was A Kid She Used To Read To Me, And Witches And Wizards In Books Always Had A Welsh Accent, So I Guess I Took It From That Really.

The Most Important Thing In Playing Any Character Is Not Judging.

It's Not Everyday You Get To Do A Pirate Movie, You Might As Well Go For It.

I've Had My Body Manipulated So Many Different Times For So Many Different Reasons, Whether It's Paparazzi Photographers Or For Film Posters. The Topless Interview Shoot Was One Of The Ones Where I Said: 'ok, I'm Fine Doing The Topless Shot So Long As You Don't Make Them Any Bigger Or Retouch.' Because It Does Feel Important To Say It Really Doesn't Matter What Shape You Are. I Think Women's Bodies Are A Battleground, And Photography Is Partly To Blame. Our Society Is So Photographic Now, It Becomes More Difficult To See All Of Those Different Varieties Of Shape.