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Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Anna Friel

Learning

Now

Support

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.

Anna Friel

Experience

Years

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Anna Friel

Word

For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

Anna Friel

Kiss

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

Anna Friel

Baby

Right

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

Anna Friel

Actor

Eyes

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

Anna Friel

Actors

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Anna Friel

Act

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.