I worry a lot about how to juggle being a single parent and working – scheduling keeps me up at night!

Thinking about all the children that are affected by all the wars that are going on right now.

As I get older, sleeping gets harder. I exercise, I do mindfulness, I take drugs occasionally.

A good film, a good book, a good script, a long phone call.

I find it difficult to sit still.

In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.

I was a happy kid. I had quite a small life: I grew up in Walthamstow and didn’t really leave east London. I didn’t go to the South Bank for the first time until I was 18 years old.

In order to raise money to pay for myself to go to the National Youth Theatre, I performed a medley of my drama school speeches and some songs for my entire school. Considering I can’t sing, this was terrible. I did U Remind Me by Usher and Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s. They paid £2 each – basically, to laugh at me.

After losing my mum still managing to finish drama school, because that was really difficult. I lost her in the first year.

Called me the N-word.