Quotes

[on getting the role of Simone for the film The Tree] I loved it so much I begged the casting director to let me audition again and she said to come back the next week but that I probably wouldn't get the part because it was a French production. And I got it! The next thing we know we'd put everything we owned in the car, including the mice and drove for 15 hours to Queensland for four months.

[on working with Charlotte Gainsbourg during the production of the film The Tree] Charlotte was really cool, she bought me an iPod and a book. Obviously I didn't know what the hell I was doing and she would teach me what to do and was really forgiving.

[on his first time attending the Cannes Film Festival to promote the film The Tree] I had no idea about the gravity of the festival. I wore Crocs! [laughs] It was insane, I was going to nightclubs, I was with Kirsten Dunst at 3 am, but my main memory of Cannes was getting room service when I got back: mac and cheese.

I really like becoming someone else and even back then I did too. I've always really cared how people see me, so I liked being able to switch off [who I am] and instead bring someone else to life. It's like a superpower.

[on how only a small circle of people knew about his decision to transition from female to male] At 13 I came out as trans, just to mum and Catherine [his trusted agent and friend Catherine Poulton] and a few close friends. I was going through a lot, thinking: 'Who the f*ck am I and where am I going?'