People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.
I have always been a good mimic.
Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.
I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.
As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.