Kristin Scott Thomas

And I said, yeah, but I'm not going to go because there's no point in like this.

And she said absolute nonsense and grabbed me by the wrist.

I still remember her little hand, her claw around my wrist and dragged me downstairs, hailed a cab, gave the man 50 francs and said, take her to the,

the theater and i got in so i have everything to thank her for was it more freeing acting in french like yes being in your english is your mother tongue yeah my english is my mother tongue uh it was and at the same time it was terrifying the first year i didn't really say very much i did a lot of mime

But I discovered a passion for this writer called Marguerite Duras.

And I'm ashamed to say that one of the reasons I enjoyed reading her writing so much, and she wrote plays and she wrote novels and she was quite, she was a very famous figure in the 70s and 80s.

And one of the reasons I really enjoyed it, because her sentences are really short,

And the publisher, the books they were published in, were very large writing.

So it was incredibly accessible.

But the thoughts were quite profound and sometimes very complicated.

So that's where I got this reputation for being incredibly brainy.

I was reading Marguerite Duras, but it was simply because the print was big and the sentences were short.

I do have a bit of an accent, but it doesn't really matter.

I think the difference between in England, we have an obsession with regional accents.

And who belongs where and where do they come from?

And it sort of bleeds over into foreign.

So, you know, where do they come from?

It's all very mysterious.

In Europe, it's much more fluid because people arrive from Spain or they arrive from Portugal or they arrive from Germany or they arrive from Northern Europe.

You know, there's much more of a mixture.