My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.

Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.