I'm A Horrible Person. And It's Just

It Was Fantastic To Be Able To Have My Kids On Set. Dash, My Eldest Son, Who’s Not Quite Five, Was Into Knights And His Godmother Had Given Him A Plastic Marks & Spencer Knights’ Outfit And [first Assistant Director] Tommy Gormley Said That He Could Stand To Protect Me During The Scene Where Clive [owen] Is Talking About The Immensity Of Sitting On The Throne. I’m Actually Looking Through An Archway At My Son Standing In His Knights’ Costume Protecting Me!

Actresses Can Get Outrageously Precious About The Way They Look. That's Not What Life's About. If You Starve Yourself To The Point Where Your Brain Cells Shrivel, You Will Never Do Good Work. And If You're Overly Conscious Of Your Arms Flapping In The Wind, How Can You Look The Other Actor In The Eye To Respond To Them?

I Never Really Think About My Gender, First And Foremost - Until A Door Is Closed To You. Until You Can See A Parallel Opportunity With A Man In A Similar Place In His Career And You Think, That Opportunity Is Not Open To Me Or My Fellow Actresses. That's Interesting.

I Think You're Peripatetic When You Work In This Industry. My Husband And I Are Assuming The Role Of Co-artistic Directors At The Sydney Theatre Company In 2008. But As Long As The Film Industry Will Have Me, I Will Have It.

When I Have My Moments Of Insomnia, Youll Find Me On Style.com.