Imogen Poots about Arian ("Centurion") and Blanche Ingram

On screen, she is about to be paired with Michael Fassbender for the second time. In the forthcoming Romans vs Celts blockbuster Centurion she plays Arian, 'a necromancer who's very into her herbs and remedies. I spent a lot of time hanging out with goats in a hut. The smells really made you feel in the part.' She heals David Morrissey's wounded knee 'with a piece of thyme', but she is, she admits 'essentially a potential love interest for Michael Fassbender'.

Their chemistry will be reprised this summer when she plays Blanche Ingram opposite Fassbender's Mr Rochester in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre. Fukunaga says he saw her playing Jane Austen's niece Fanny in Miss Austen Regrets for the BBC and was impressed by her sense of period. 'You can tell there's a lot going on behind the eyes, a fierce intelligence and humour. In Jane Eyre, she's an accomplished young lady who has to sing 1830s operetta and I asked her how she was going to sing it and she said, "Like Johnny Cash?" which I thought showed her sense of humour, which seems quite zany. I'm really looking forward to seeing how her face works on camera.'