Hannah Murray

And that movie, yes, set me on this path that really is what the book's about.

It's something I do feel relatively disconnected from in that, like...

People don't really come up to me in the street, recognise me anymore.

And it happens occasionally.

And when it does happen, it is clear that often that person has loved, whether it's Game of Thrones or Skins or both, for a really long time and that it means an incredible amount to them.

And I think for me, it's always just felt quite surreal that I was in these shows that were so popular and meant so much to so many people.

Because...

My perception of myself is only that I am me and I can't possibly be in a huge, you know, it's like you can't hold the two truths at once that you're in a TV show and that that TV show happens to be a huge cultural phenomenon.

So I think I'm kind of constantly surprised and quite moved by how much those characters still mean to people.

Yeah, I think I spent many years after doing my English degree

desperately wanting to write and feeling so inhibited by the things I had learned about literature there.

And I think whenever I did sit down to try and write something, whether that, you know, I tried writing screenplays, I tried writing short stories and novels and nothing would ever get very far because I would immediately put on my kind of analytical Cambridge brain and tear whatever I had written to pieces.

And I think I had to kind of get a bit of distance from that undergraduate degree to really be able to write in a less inhibited way.

How are you feeling about it being published?

Mostly really, really excited.

Like a little dose of terrified as well.

And I think that's quite healthy.

But I spent seven years writing it and to now be in this moment that it's a real book and it's about to be read by other people who I don't even know.

It feels phenomenally exciting.

The role I played in Detroit, you know, I was playing a real woman and the biggest sort of moment that happens to that character in that film is that she is sexually assaulted by a police officer.