I've always been very passionate about acting. I appeared in panto in the Everyman from the age of five.
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I got to a point where I thought, now I have a choice. I can stay in theatre, or I can challenge myself and give this a go. And I want to challenge myself. I like to scare myself.
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Your choices are very important. The only thing you have as actors are your choices: the option to say no to something. You don't want to take on a really bad job and be terrible in something - especially in film, because if you're bad in it, you're bad in it forever.
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Actors, by nature, are insecure. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. It is good to question yourself, be self-analytical. You get a better performance if you challenge yourself. If you go around thinking you're great, you're never going to challenge or scare yourself.
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I cleaned my room - I've been living out of suitcases. I live in London; I've been here six years and I still haven't got myself an English phone.
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You do burn out, going from job to job. You have to be careful of your mental health and your body.
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Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun shining every day. I love it there.
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Normal People' is an incredibly intimate show, there are a lot of love scenes in it and it's beautifully done.
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You do doubt yourself and question yourself. You go from massive highs and confidence boosters - when I was in New York I was buzzing around the place - to really doubting yourself and questioning everything about your personality.
