If I Don't Do This Film. I'll

I'm ... Incredibly Open With My Mates. Or Even People I Just Meet.

It's A Tricky One When You're Playing Somebody Who Is Mad. There's Often The Big Actor's Question, If You're Playing A Part Like That: Do You Take It To Be An Internalized Thing, Pull The Audience In, Or Do You Go Full-out, And Kind Of Present It As Quite A Shocking Thing?

I Worked With John Maybury On The Jacket And I Think He's An Extraordinary Film-maker. I Read The First Drafts Of This Piece When I Was Working On The Jacket, And We'd So Fallen In Love With Him That We Thought He Was The Only Person That Should Direct This! We Wrote Poems For Him, We Sent Him Champagne And Cakes. Four Years Later He Finally Read It.

I Would Be Extremely Stupid If I Said That My Looks Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With What I Do, It [moviemaking] Is A Visual Medium. I'm Perfectly Aware Of That, The Face And The Body Help. Of Course They Do.

I've Had My Body Manipulated So Many Different Times For So Many Different Reasons, Whether It's Paparazzi Photographers Or For Film Posters. The Topless Interview Shoot Was One Of The Ones Where I Said: 'ok, I'm Fine Doing The Topless Shot So Long As You Don't Make Them Any Bigger Or Retouch.' Because It Does Feel Important To Say It Really Doesn't Matter What Shape You Are. I Think Women's Bodies Are A Battleground, And Photography Is Partly To Blame. Our Society Is So Photographic Now, It Becomes More Difficult To See All Of Those Different Varieties Of Shape.