[laughs] And it came about.

Why do we not celebrate people's wins? Achievement is, is something to be proud of.

Women of our age can lead, and people will be interested.

When I left Coronation Street, I remember having dreams that year after going, "What have I done? What have I done? What have I done?" Any time an actor walks away from security, you think, "Am I a lunatic?" When you have the fire inside you, you just have to sometimes jump.

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'Cause you weren't quite ready.

Oh, yeah.

I was ...

Yeah

...

I just start to know my own process, and I-I think I'm also a person, and again, I think this goes back to me being ready all the time, I think my best takes are probably, like, the earlier takes.

I think if I repeat something too much, I just get bored with myself and it feels inauthentic.

So I will now be upfront and that, like, I'm confident enough to say to the director, "This is gonna be tricky and it's gonna be really hard, and I reckon if you haven't got it in the first two, we'll struggle.

So technically, let's make sure that everything is as you need it to be.

Let's do a take where I'm not gonna do the performance.

Yeah

This is one of the challenges of this job.

If you're leading a show, you're working 14, 15-hour days.

Instead of just peaks and troughs, it's like mountains and absolute, [laughs] like, you know, black holes.

The schedule is punishing, but I think that I need to find a way in myself to go through that schedule with more ease and less like I'm going to war.

Yeah.

"Got, like, you know, seven scenes to shoot today.

This is gonna be hard." But maybe you could do it with not holding on so tightly.