“I got offered 'Black Mirror,' and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to …” — Chloe Pirrie

It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.

People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between where you're waiting for the phone to ring, or you're waiting to hear about things.

It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.

I definitely have had a couple of years where I've been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you'll never work again. It's a funny job. It never gets easier. Rejection never gets easier.