To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

It was brilliant, actually, being able to go for a pee without having to lift up two petticoats – one of which would always end up down the toilet.

I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.

I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.

I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I'm just a goofball.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.