Getting away from where you live and going to London is like the romantic ideal of ambition.

I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well.

You can love a play and character and can be the right person to tell that story. But if you don't click with the other people in the play, it won't work.

There have been amazing performances by straight people playing gay and by gay people playing straight.

'Bridgerton' is actually delivering on changing the bar, and the standard, of representation.

My dad worked in a honey factory - we used to call him the honey monster' - and I worked there.

I'd like to have been a pilot.

As a family, we were far too busy making mud pies and going to swimming galas, and mum was always working.

One of my sisters was doing dance, and I'd watch from the back of the classroom in my trainers. Slowly, I started integrating myself into the fraught south Oxford ballet culture.

You work and strive to be an actor and you can get better at it and enjoy it. But you can't be good at fame or enjoy it. Some people do, some people don't.