Anne-Marie Duff

And I said, I choked on a macaroon and I got a round of applause.

Lovely.

Which I hated because I thought I'd lied.

The Catholic in me went, oh no, I lied.

Nailed me to the cross.

And then I continued the show.

And my then boyfriend, David Tennant, because we were together for a while, came up to Manchester, drove up to Manchester to see me, because that's where it was.

He was a good pal.

Well, this is... And I'm a firm believer, even to the curtain call in completing your contract with the audience.

No, nothing like that.

No, it was about the production and about the... So what is the root of that?

Because has it occurred to you... Did it begin... Was this the one experience or have you had a series of... No, I've had moments where I've... When we were doing Husbands and Sons, which was the...

plaiting together of three D.H.

Lawrence plays that we did at the National.

And then we took up, funny enough, Manchester again.

Isn't this interesting?

Up to the Royal Exchange, we went up there for a brief minute.

And in one of the plays that I was working on, the miners all come running in to say that my husband's been killed.

Very famous moment in the play.

And I actually passed out on stage.