Greta Lee

Okay, he's very much a man of his time, but I wonder deep down inside whether he really is slightly being cast in a role he doesn't necessarily want to fulfill.

And there must have been many, many men who did that.

And maybe sometimes their strictness and their draconian attitudes were a product of being slightly out of their debts.

I mean, I know a lot of big families, men, they were young men.

All of a sudden, they had seven kids.

They must have thought, what the hell's happened?

So I'm not defending a whole generation of draconian, restrictive men, but it did occur to me that as this man sees this world unfolding before him, he's intelligent, he's irascible, but he's intelligent.

He doesn't want to lose his daughter.

He allows the rivets of his...

The rivets of his structure of his up to this point perception of society are loosening as everybody's rivets must have been.

I mean, rather painfully, the whole of society, I mean, particularly as we know, the active suffragettes were regarded as terrorists and they were beaten up and they were starved and they were force fed.

I mean, so we forget these things because, in a sense, they've been bizarrely romanticized now.

They've become biscuit-tinned, as it were, these characters, to a certain degree.

But we forget that there was a real, real struggle, and it was a real moment in time, a very important moment in time, where attitudes were changing.

Unfortunately, a lot of, you know, active people would say, well, not enough, and we know, but this is 100 years ago.

and it was really pretty tough for a lot of women so that's what this film explains in a very witty way in a very un-po-faced way I think and a lot of that was the fact that

Tina as well, and the cast you got together were up for kind of loosening up a bit.

I think Hayley's performance is fantastic in it.

I mean, she's vivacious and takes and carries it all without it being, you know, precious or self-regarding, I think.

It's a wonderful, fresh performance.