It's All About Perfection, Isn't It?

I Love Costume Dramas, I Love Performing In Them, Because In A Funny Kind Of Way, You Feel More Free. You Know About The Period, You Can Read The Books, You Can See The Paintings, But You've Never Actually Going To Know What It Was Like. You Can Kind Of Stretch Those Boundaries A Bit.

I Went Through Voice Coaching. I Was Absolutely Terrified. I Thought My Knees Were Going To Buckle, And The First Couple Of Takes I Sounded Like A Pubescent Boy. I Didn't Realise I Was Going To Have To Do It Live.

You Bring Yourself To Every Role, It Doesn't Matter Who It Is, It Doesn't Matter If It's A Mass Murderer, You Can Bring Something To It.

I Like To Do The Pictures Before People Get Too Self-conscious. I Like To Be Spontaneous And Get A Shot Before The Subject Thinks Too Much About It.

It's A Tricky One When You're Playing Somebody Who Is Mad. There's Often The Big Actor's Question, If You're Playing A Part Like That: Do You Take It To Be An Internalized Thing, Pull The Audience In, Or Do You Go Full-out, And Kind Of Present It As Quite A Shocking Thing?