Actress

I find it easy to act being in love. I've experienced that and analysed it.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.

'Skins' was such a great platform for young actors. They had this whole thing about getting people who weren't trained, this new generation, this new culture.

On 'Skins,' we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn't on set, I was doing my normal things.

I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair.

I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.

I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.

Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it.

I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work.

I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad.

When someone shouts 'Skins' at you, its funny the first time. But after a hundred times, you think, 'I do have a name.'

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

I think of women as an all-being creature.

'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.

I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.

Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud.