Oh, did you? More than I’ve bloody seen!

How is it playing the Victorian Mary? You put the costume on, do you immediately stand up straighter?

Yeah, you do. You’re in a corset. And also, because of the way Mark’s written it, it’s not modern dialogue, so there is an element of everything being held and placed. That just happens automatically with the costume. Because it’s really heavy! That’s genuine one-hundred year old material, you pick it up and it just rips, so you have to be really careful with it, but as soon as you’re in it, you just find yourself quite placed, which is great, because that’s the period. Repression, keeping the women down…

So it makes you quite static?

In that costume, yeah. There’s another couple of scenes that I do with Mark where I’m in a blue dress quite similar, again in a corset, but there’s another. In the third costume, it’s plus fours and a waistcoat, it’s quite Hobbity actually, looks quite like Martin! [laughter] And I don’t wear a corset in that, so it’s much more free. It’s all very held.