I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s – I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.

I didn’t want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn’t going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I...