Charlotte Hope

Whenever I get a script I skip from the leading role to the second or third friend as I think, 'no one famous will want that so I might get it!'

The biggest auditions can be the most freeing. The odds are always stacked against you and you always expect someone famous to get the part, so it eases the pressure.

It's mad that in pretty much any other industry equality is expected as a standard, but in the acting industry, because there are such fewer parts, we seem to accept 'I'm a girl so it's harder for me'.