For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.
I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.
You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.
All the pins stuck in my head from the wig. I would set off a metal detector. And you know when your head gets really itchy? So when the wig gets put on at like 5:30, 6 A.M., and you can't take it off until 7 P.M. - I won't miss all the pins scratching against my scalp.
The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.
That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.
I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.
I do yoga weekly. I don't know who I'd be without yoga and running.
Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.
I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.
I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.
You’re adored and you’re talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last year
When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity, which Game of Thrones deals with all those things, then I'm just grateful that it reinstates my faith that art can be life applicable.
I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.
I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous.
I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.
I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.
I think classes can be the most fun. And if you want to make it a social thing and you want to go with friends, then that's the way to do it.
There's no right or wrong, exercise is exercise and it's incredibly healthy for you and, you know, society. And it's a positive thing, so however you want to do it, each individual to themselves.
Feminist, whatever the definition, whatever you call yourself - I am, I'm not - none of us want little girls being forced into early marriage before they're 12.
I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life; I think it's very healthy. I think that's even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England].
We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.
