“Let's unbutton the corsets and see what's really going on, I say.” — Jonathan Bailey Quote

Let's unbutton the corsets and see what's really going on, I say.

I already knew, of course, about the juggernaut that is Shonda Rhimes and the cultural significance of her.

People say, 'You've got to challenge yourself,' and I don't think there's anything better than going, 'I don't understand how this thing is possible.' Fear of the unknown is always the thing in life.

I'd say I'm not openly gay. I'm just gay.

I think it shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of course there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay men aren't playing straight in leading roles.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.