Neve McIntosh

I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.

With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.

Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.