Kristin Scott Thomas

Bridget was in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

I loved playing Bridget.

I can't even tell you how this thing, when it arrived in my letterbox, it was just like, oh, this is at last someone is saying these things.

Thank God.

Yes.

Loved it.

And there was no way I wasn't going to do that, you know.

more radical as a... Can I just make a little correction about that?

It's not that male critics don't understand.

It's that we need more women playwrights so that it becomes more normal for women to stand up on stage and talk about our bodies, about our experience of childbirth, about our experience of menopause, about our experience of life, full stop.

So I just think that...

I don't know what the ratio is male to female, but I think that that argument was misconstrued.

Okay.

Or impatient.

I just get impatient with the, I'm just impatient with why are we still doing this?

Why is this not, why is there only, I mean, hopefully it's changed, but I read somewhere that there was 4% of medical research goes into women's bodies.

Yeah, I mean, it's extraordinary.

Extraordinary.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.