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Strong female characters are *so important* and the shows don't suffer because you write them.

I'd like to play Beatrice in 'Much Ado About Nothing'; I think that would be great fun to do.

My background is theatre, so I love working on stage. And any sort of great roles – Ibsen, Chekhov –  you know, any of those roles I’d love to do, but also I’d be really keen on working with new playwrights… But Cleopatra and Beatrice for sure; I have to tick them off my bucket list at some point.

Come on, guys. Rhino horn isn't going to give you The Horn. [...] Look for some other source to get it up.

Are they literally just going to be wandering around with limp dicks?

She’s what I suppose in those days one would call an adventuress and she’s been to university, she’s lived in North Africa, she’s worked alongside archaeologists and is very much part of that world. A sort of Gertrude Bell-type character. I’m sure she would have looked up to someone like Gertrude Bell. And so to come from a rather free existence into the relative constraints of 165, she doesn’t understand why she necessarily would have to conform to the very beautifully kept world that they’ve created for themselves. She shakes it up a bit.

I think, in going back to what I was saying earlier about how I'll just work instinctively from the lines, I guess there's always going to be an element of yourself in the roles you play because, ultimately, that's what you're sourcing. You're sourcing a sort of instinctive response to something. But I'm not as badass as River Song! ... I'm not actually like River Song at all!