"Romana was a real bitch wasn't she?"
"Yes she was a bitch. She had to be. Here was a character who had been through so much crap that it had hardened her to the extent where she basically became heartless"
"What, both of them?"
" Smartarse, yes she had to effectively become a automaton to pull Gallifrey through"
"Panoptican drew a lot of criticism because it made issues such as war crimes and PTSD into entertainment. Did you feel any pressure?
"I thrive on pressure darling. War is a fucking horrible thing and it does terrible things to people. I have marched against war and and have been a peace campaigner my whole life. For me playing Romana like that as a traumatised, scarred victim was a magnificent way of saying to all the warmongers and armchair generals 'look you cunts, war isn't like what you see at the movies. it destroys people'"
(The Last Leg, 2018)