Anne-Marie Duff

And Julia Ford, who's one of my best friends, was also in the play.

She just came over and she just put her arm, because she knows me so well.

And as we came off, we were walking off stage, she just went, okay, pal, you okay?

Because she just knew I'd allowed it in.

And you mustn't, because it isn't therapy.

And it isn't, you know, you have to be careful.

You do have to have a membrane.

Because you're not actually a great storyteller without it.

I just knew her so well.

I think just all my Catholicism, all of the Irishness.

It's true.

I loved her punk nature.

But there was the speech, the Bell speech, which even now, thank you for that, it makes me want to cry.

I just think it's the most...

I just think it's the most profoundly beautiful piece of writing.

Well, it's when Joan says, you can do anything to me as long as I can hear.

And then she talks about the bells ringing and the birds singing.

And it is the most... Because it's about humanity and it's about just our...

extraordinary ability to withstand the strongest of winds you know and and i think for me and afterwards i had grace tattoos on my arm because when you're raised catholic people often talk about state of grace as this sort of explain that well it's kind of explained as a sort of passive

and that you're sort of in reception.