John Wilson

Who's that?

You, Charlie.

Did that set the template for those sort of roles?

I think that's what happens.

I think that you are going to be the victim of your first success.

So my first real success was before that, which was in an adaptation of an even more novel called A Handful of Dust.

And that sort of put me on the map as far as filmmakers were concerned, perhaps not the public so much, but filmmakers.

And that was playing Lady Brenda Last.

So once you've done that, everyone thinks, oh, she can do that accent or she can do that.

She's got the poise, she's got the cheekbones or whatever.

It was deeply frustrating because that did not come naturally.

It was work to create that character of Brenda Last.

What, the cug?

Glass, poise, the English.

Yeah, all of that stuff was not, you know, that was something I had to concentrate on.

Absolutely.

But I've been in France for the past 10 years.

What's interesting is that in France, you seem to play more complex, emotional women, often in psychological dramas.

Films like Tell No One, Leaving, Patia.

I love that film.