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1. Watching something like ‘Orange is the New Black’ — the development of the characters is amazing. Or ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘Mad Men’ — those shows went on for so long. You become so invested in those characters, and I think that’s a pretty magic thing.
2. It’s important you don’t lose touch with reality because, well, reality’s the only thing you’ve got, really.
3. I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I’m in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
4. There’s such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life — different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.
5. I love independent films. I love going to see them. I love being a part of them because it kind of feels like ‘all for one and one for all.’ It can be really challenging but also really rewarding because sometimes you have to do so much stuff in a day, but I like that challenge, and you make such amazing friends.
6. I never want to sell my soul for something I don’t believe in. Because guess what? Somebody somewhere in the world would have believed in that part and should be playing it — who am I to not allow that person that opportunity?
7. I once used a fork to comb my hair because there was a time when I didn’t own a hairbrush.
8. If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that’s important.
9. I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it’s got the same sort of music to talking.
10. My mum sent me to an open audition for ‘Notes On A Scandal’ so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. And I queued up, and I got the job. That was my first-ever audition, and my second was ‘Atonement.’
11. I love going to the movies; I grew up going to the movies. I didn’t really watch TV, growing up, other than weird cartoons like ‘Beavis & Butt-Head.’
12. Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he’s doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.
13. There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it’s so important for me to do things that I’m passionate about.
14. What’s exciting about watching a movie, when it’s finished, is you sometimes you don’t recognize yourself, and that’s when I’m really proud.
15. I love the idea of playing women I think I’m going to learn from.
16. I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it’s all really happening. If I’m in it, I’m in it.
17. I never wanted to go to drama school. I thought that was too many eggs in one basket.
18. I think being in touch with your emotions is very key as an actor, and I think experiencing life is the only way to be in touch with your emotions.
19. I’ve never been scared of snakes. I’m really, truly arachnophobic — I hate spiders — but snakes have never freaked me out. I think they’re really beautiful.
20. When you sign up to a film, you sign up to everything that’s in the script. I really believe in that.