I play Elizabeth Bathory, who is a real historical character, but we tell a very different story, we think she is very misjudged and she wasn’t guilty of all the crimes attributed to her. There is a lot of folklore and Bathory is a strong, warrior-like heroine who has a duty to her marriage and her country, which stretched from the borders over Moravia all the way to the Adriatic Sea, and she basically had to do it single-handedly. This is the first time I’ve ever made a movie with a director that doesn’t speak any English, but I’m enjoying it immensely. I think the entire Czech crew we have are the hardest workers I’ve ever come across. We’re doing mad hours, like 16 hours a day, and they’ve been so collaborative and so helpful and warm; and the translation has been fantastic. It is very complicated, the story spans over 25 years – in the morning we’re doing chapter one and in the afternoon we may be doing chapter three when she was 54 and we all have to stick together and I think the English blending with the Czech is working quite nicely. Europe is beautiful. I think the nicest thing is that they are still paying attention to making films look beautiful, which is quite rare these days.