Emma Corrin

“Someone at school said I dance like a spider, and I've never got beyond that. It's always been a running joke in my friendship groups.”

“You think you're doing the coolest thing in the world when you're a teenager and you like someone.”

“I'd run a mile if anyone in the Royal Family asked me to marry them!”

“Where I was living, there was a backyard, and we had a lot of neighbors with cats. These cats used to just sit on the wall, and one day I just turned around and there was a cat sitting there.”

“Everyone has this insatiable need to share things with everyone. I think people want to be seen.”

“There were things I tried to emulate, like Diana's head tilt and her voice. She had a very unique way of speaking.”

“I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what they both had to endure in that marriage. I don't think you can pick a side.”

“I get very anxious doing press and events, so it's important I surround myself with people I get on with and really trust.”

“A lot changed when I started working with Polly Bennett and we did a lot of character and movement stuff together.”

“There was a moment in time when we were filming in London, and we thought someone stole one of the queen's wigs. But I think someone had just misplaced it. It was so funny. I remember it being the most panicked day on set. 'We're missing a wig!'”

“People always ask how fame has hit me, and rarely do I feel it emotionally.”

“The industry loves to pigeonhole.”

“I do 5Rhythms a lot. It's like dance meditation. You go into a room and there's a DJ and it's in the evening, completely sober, and it's spiritual. You can just move and dance however you want.”

“I feel I've got to know Diana like you would a friend. I know that sounds really weird, but I get a great sense of companionship from her.”

“There's this theme throughout my life of Diana cropping up. It doesn't feel ordinary.”

“Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, 'It didn't go your way,' I felt the layers of my skin growing. 'OK, cool, let's move on.' You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it's intense.”

“I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start.”

“When I was 16, I had a massive crush on our tennis coach and every time he came round to teach my brothers I used to sit outside and pretend to be reading something really intellectual.”

“My roots are in theater.”

“My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves. That's the way society works within these binaries and it's taken me a long time to realize that I exist somewhere in between and I'm still not sure where that is yet.”