I'm ... Incredibly Open With

In L.a., I'm Twice The Size - Height And Everything Else - Of Most Of The Other Actresses Who Are Going For An Audition.

You Live With A Writer [a Mother], And You Grow Up With Their Words, Their Kind Of Fantasies, And I'd Pretty Much Seen Every Single One Of Her Plays, And Been In A Lot Of Rehearsal Rooms, So It Felt Very Natural And Easy. It Was Lovely To Get An Opportunity To Do That Professionally As Well.

I Don't Read My Reviews. Unless I'm Unfortunate Enough To Catch Something By Accident, Which Happens, And It's Always A Bad Review. Always, It's Amazing. I Will Be Sitting In A Café, And I Will Open A Random Paper Right To The Page Of The Review.... And Then You're Sucked In And Go Home And Never Want To Go Out Again.

I Find It Quite Difficult On Studio Films Because There Are So Many Different Executives And Things Like That That You Have To Go Through, So Very Often Getting That Definitive Opinion Is Actually Quite Difficult.

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.