I'm very lazy!

My life is European.

I still absolutely love ‘The Sound of Music’ and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence – then you’re told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

I’d love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

I find it difficult to explain, but I’m quite ashamed of being an actress.

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I’m working with. If I’ve got no confidence in what I’m doing and they don’t provide me with some assurance that we’re doing the right thing then I bully people. I’m a horrible bully.

I’ve realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I’m not around to please anyone any more, and it’s a huge relief.

Often, the roles I’m offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: ‘This is me playing this character. And aren’t I fantastic!’ I don’t feel that so much now.