JOSH O'CONNOR

I think I'm generally quite good at being able to put things in the past and let them go, as it were.

Regardless of the size of the budget or the name of the director, if the story is really interesting, then I can get on board with it. If it's not, then they're not gonna cast me anyway, because I'll just give a terrible audition.

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

I am thrilled to be joining The Firm for the next installment of 'The Crown'.

Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were artists, so I was kind of surrounded by that world. Then acting came along, and I loved it immediately.

I've never farmed before. It's unforgiving, it's hard work, hard graft - but I loved it, and I loved everyone I met who guided me along the way.

I grew up in a family that felt indifferent towards the royal family.

I remember thinking this is everything that England means to me. The huge, flat landscapes with deep reds and greens. Daunting and terrifying and incredible. We should see it more on film, I think.

When I left drama school I was prepped to be in shows and tour around England by van.

I have so much respect for the Queen and for Charles, and what the family represents. And yet there's still a conflict about whether we can abolish the class system while also having a Royal family.

I work in an industry in which we're all quite vulnerable, I think, to mental health.

But I loved 'Clueless'. I still think 'Clueless' is a great movie.

I went from silent films to watching French new wave cinema. I became entrapped by it all. That's when I knew I wanted to do film. The moment you start looking at film from a critique point of view - there's a difference between watching a film as an audience and with a critical point of view.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain relevant, regardless of how you do them.

I've got two brothers. One's older - the artist - and then my younger brother is an ecological economist - a farmer.

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

I remember not wanting to play football because I didn't want to get my hair wet.

All of a sudden we were going on school trips, seeing these amazing plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett. My whole world went from 'This is really fun' to 'This is fascinating to me'.

Y'know, even in a lot of heterosexual cinema it's always kind of miserable. Love doesn't work and then, if it does work, it's suddenly a rom-com.

I love theater and I really wanted to do more theater.

Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.

Well, we lived in Newbury first, until I was five. Then we went to Cheltenham, which is lovely, a really sweet town. We lived surrounded by hills. It was the best place to grow up.

My dad's an English teacher and my mum's a midwife. Then my mum's side of the family are all crazy creative.

I had one lesson with Devil's Horsemen, who do a lot of the horse-riding stuff for films. They train actors to look reasonable on horses. They do 'Game of Thrones', everything.

When I left school, all I wanted was to buy a van.