She Said
Acting in theatre vs. films:What I like the most is theater. I like it ’cause you loose yourself to it. There’s not a camera, you are not important, the ones that matter are the audience. Doing films is so different. I don’t have the same conection.”

On acting in the future:I would love to do a very quiet role, a girl that doesn’t says a word and is always polishing her nails and stuff, something completely different than what I am. Because I’m always the crazy girl. Always. I would like the repressed girl.”

Her experience with Harry Potter:It has been exciting, so great (sigh) There is so much to do and to see and many enormous people. It is overwhelming”

Auditioning for Tonks: “I was doing a play. My agent calls and says ‘you have to come down today before your show. Come to London today and audition for Harry Potter’. I thought I was going to be an extra or some kind of witch. I didn’t know anything. I walk in late and sweaty from being on a bike all day. Then I trip and fall into a table. The director laughs and I’m like ‘um..Hi, I’m not always like this.. But the part, is really clumsy, you know, she’s a very good witch, but in the book - I than read the book, finally, and she just keeps falling over, and she’s a metamprphagu, so she can change shape and she’s in the order. But, she’s the youngest and she’s a bit kind of like, kind of a rebel, a bit kind of a silly playful little girl, and so even if she’s quite cool, she just keeps tripping up the whole time.’”

On getting the part of Tonks: “I practically knew nothing of the films, I was not following the books. After the first audition which was fatal, the worst of my life, I was surprised when my agent called and said ‘that was terrible, but they want to see you again’”

On the acting industry: “It does not seem absolutely just to me, but this it is a cruel world. The acadamies consider you much too young at 18 years. They do not accept to you until your 23 or 24, and if you are a girl and you spend three or four years in uni, studying until your 28, it is much more difficult to find a job…because of the obsession with beauty. It seems to me terrible, immoral”

On character in ‘Mrs. Henderson’: “My character is from London’s East End. I think Peggy is the idiot of them all. She screams at mice, messes things up a bit. She says certain things that a good girl wouldn’t such as, ‘Not even my boyfriend’s seen me naked.’”

On being nude in ‘Mrs. Henderson’: “I went to Bedales [the Hampshire school well know for its liberal attitudes and commitment to arts and performance] where there’s a lot of art. My friends did plaster casts of me naked. Also, my family is Spanish and in Spain when it’s hot everyone’s naked. We don’t have inhibitions in my family.”

On the tableaux in ‘Mrs. Henderson’: “My favourite was the first one, Sweet Inspiration, because my bum was really visible – though the funniest was being a mermaid in a massive blonde wig with a fishy tail.”

They Said
Marco Sandeman - Director of Delusions of Grandeur: “when we started filming Delusions, it was amazing to see how she could put so much into the subtlest gestures - something I had no idea she could do, since she was always so full of energy and life in her everyday self. This ability of hers really comes out in the scene between herself and Patrick, the neighbour, in the corridor.”

Marco Sandeman - Director of Delusions of Grandeur: “In reality, she’s fun, full of life and has an amazing singing voice.”

Emma Rice - Artistic Director of Nights at the Circus: “She’s thin and tiny - but she is a force of nature, truly wild and rude.”