From battling sexist casting to hobnobbing with Hollywood megacelebs, the Bodyguard star’s had a stellar career. She talks about ripping up the rulebook, her new Jane Austen drama – and what she loves about Jeremy Clarkson.
…Miss Austen came along at a point when the three-time Bafta nominee was keen to shake things up. “I wanted to do something wholesome, for want of a better word. There’s so much darkness and murder in drama nowadays. That’s all well and good. Everything has its place and its audience. But I’d done several projects about death and was desperate to do something about love. I had no idea that a centuries-old love story between two sisters was the thing I was looking for.”
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