Inside Out: Natalie Press

Her latest film is the IRA thriller, Fifty Dead Men Walking, with Ben Kingsley.

A lifelong Londoner, Natalie likes to spend her weekends grocery shopping at Broadway Market. 'Most of the market sellers own their own farms, so the produce is always amazing,' she says. 'I go from there to Columbia Road for flowers, and then spend the rest of the day pottering up and down Brick Lane and around Spitalfields for epic thrifting.'

As well as eating healthily, Natalie reveals that her secret for keeping fit is: 'Not driving a car. I'm always racing around on the Underground in pumps, with heels in my bag.' She loves to cook, and dreams of one day having 'a large kitchen that's constantly stocked with fresh herbs'. Her passion for food, she says, comes from her mother: 'There's nothing my mother can't make exceptionally well. Her chicken soup is the best I've ever had and she does amazing roasts.'

Who would join you for a sofa supper?
My old friends Evie and Andy because they are always a hoot, and my gay husbands Dom and Bob.

What would you eat?
Gnocchi with gorgonzola and plenty of black pepper.

What's for pudding?
Something involving chocolate, toffee and banana.

And to drink?
Classic champagne cocktails.

What's on the television?
True Romance.

What are your five favourite restaurants?
Galerie 88 in Paris, a small Moroccan restaurant by the Seine. It's very low-key but effortlessly chic and buzzy, too. The food is awesome. I love Caffé Rosso in Campo Santa Margherita in Venice. I have been going to Venice since I was a teenager and the guys know me there. It's the first place I go when I get off the plane. I always eat the same thing - spaghetti arrabbiata. In London I treasure Galicia on Portobello Road. I love the squid in black ink. Doyles in Watsons Bay, Sydney, which is stunning and it does delicious seafood. Balthazar in New York is another favourite. It does the best Caesar salad and is known for its slickness.

Fifty Dead Men Walking is out on 10 April 2009