I Had Friends At School, But I

I'm Physically Completely Mal-coordinated. My Best Friend Used To Make Me Run For The Bus Just To Give Herself A Quick, Cheap Laugh Because I Definitely Don't Have That Sophisticated Cool Thing Down.

Good People Can Do Terrible Things, And That's What Life Is All About, The Complexities And Grey Areas. And Often Characters Aren't Written That Way In Movies, Especially Characters For Women. So You End Up Being Either One Thing Or The Other.

I Spent A Lot Of Time With A Real Detective, A Lady Detective Inspector Who Was The Only Female Detective Inspector In The Whole Of East London. She And I Hung Out A Lot. She Showed Me What She Did And I Spent Time With Her. So, [she Was] A Lot Of The Inspiration For The Way I Dressed And Sometimes The Dialogue In Those Interview Scenes Where We're Cross Examining And Questioning The Youths And Trying To Get A Confession Out Of Them.

In My First Few Years As An Actor, I Took One Terrible Tv Job After Another. But Even As I Laughed Off My Awful Roles And Made Fun Of Myself To Friends, My Work Made Me Cringe - I Dreaded Anyone's Seeing It. I Was Crushed That I Wasn't Doing Anything I Was Proud Of.

My Take On People And On The Characters I Play In Transsiberian, The Role You're Looking For, Is That Everybody Is More Than One Thing. We're Many Things, All Of Us, And There Are Times When We Are Capable Of Great Levity And Jolliness And Then There Are Times When The Opposite Is True.