I Hope That Anyone I Worked With

What People Can Survive And What They Don't Survive Is Shocking To Me. Someone Can Go To Iraq And Be Blown To Bits And Survive. Someone Can Trip And Fall On The Street And They Die - That's That.

For Me To Have The Opportunity To Stay With One Character For, God Willing, A Long Period Of Time, Is Really Exciting.

I Never Felt Like A Happy-go-lucky Ingenue To Begin With. And Parts Are Written Better When You're Older. When You're Young, You're Written To Be An Ingenue, And You're Written To Be A Quality. You're Actually Not Written To Be A Person, You're Written For Your Youth To Inspire Someone Else, Usually A Man. So I Find It Just Much More Liberating.

But I've Also Spread My Net Very Wide. If There's One Thing That I've Done On Purpose It's To Take Whatever Job, So Long As It's Interesting And Challenging, Whether It's Theatre, Radio, Tv Or Film.

My Parents Were Divorced And I Didn't Grow Up With My Father, But I Spent A Lot Of Time Around Him, And His Influence On Me Has Been Profound.