Sophie Rundle

I trained at RADA, then went into the theatre, but TV is like starting at the bottom again. I have just been learning.

You just hope each job is going to be as good as it possibly can be.

The 'Jamestown' set was so convincing. It had been raining for a few days before we started filming, and when we turned up, we were knee-high in mud. There were pigs and goats everywhere, too, which meant the whole place smelled pretty ripe. It definitely helped us enter the 'Jamestown' world immediately.

All Anne Lister wanted was a wife, and the other liaisons couldn't commit, but Ann Walker did. She took sacrament with her, and they became wife and wife. That shows extraordinary strength.

I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you're chatting to a cabbie, and they don't know you're an actor, I cringe because it's always coupled with the inevitable, 'So, what have I seen you in?' And you're left reciting your CV.

My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

I haven't just been swanning around Hollywood, you know.

So often, when you're an actor, you're told what to do and what to say and what to wear. Your opinion is, at best, tolerated and, at worst, not wanted.

I think that we're starting to allow ourselves to imagine that gender doesn't have to be binary, sexuality doesn't have to be binary, and you are allowed to choose who you love, how you behave, and how you dress.

I'm fascinated by female relationships.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.