Was it intimidating meeting Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg?
Yes, it was nerve-wracking. I mean… he’s Leo! But he was very charming and ran the room. I walked into a room to play an improvised scene. Leo and Steven were there. They said ‘Hi, I’m Leo’ and ‘Hi, I’m Steven’. They asked questions which we had to answer on the spot. Steven hid behind the camera but I could hear him laughing every now and then. I didn’t meet Tom Hanks, which was a shame. Those guys loved making the movie and they’re very passionate about it. Had you always wanted to be an actress since childhood? No, I wanted to be a ballerina – I studied ballet for 14 years. But after knee surgery I took a theatre class instead and decided that I liked acting. Why did you need to have knee surgery? When I was seven, I was bitten on my knee by a spider in my backyard which paralysed me from the neck down. I’m in the Medical Journal as I’m the only person in the world to have this injury! I didn’t even feel the bite. My knee swelled, then I couldn’t move my leg so I went to hospital. B
