I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

People expect me to be stupid. I'm not saying I'm Stephen Fry, but it is amazing the perception people have.

I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. But that tag - 'underwear model' - I just can't get rid of it. And it's such a bizarre, specific thing - underwear. It's like I never modelled clothes.

I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.