Russell Tovey

so that in her lifetime, she got to know the story had been rectified.

The fact that, you know, 10 years later or something after she rips up that picture, it's all proven to have happened, you know, all this abuse.

Yeah, the actual abuse, well, the initial stages of it all.

So it's such a long time after that maybe she wouldn't have even been around to know that you guys were doing that.

And I'm just so grateful that she got to participate in it.

And

You know, I mean, that gives you some tiny amount of solace in her sad loss because it's so devastating.

But I'm just so grateful she got to see that, you know.

Yeah and also I was in Dublin for the first time last year which is so insane that I'd never been there before but I went there finally and I saw a really beautiful mural of her and I know there's been murals put up of her like in many different places around the world but it was so touching to see that in Dublin I just love the idea of people you know.

Out of that project and that film, your career started to kind of take turns that I don't know if you ever really expected, because now you're actually working in film in terms of scripted.

And you've just won an IFTA again, because you won one for Nothing Compares, for your short film Nostalgie.

And you were also nominated for a BAFTA this time.

And I don't think you were for Nothing Compares, which I at the time was outraged about.

Do you remember?

I was like so pissed off because I felt like you should be winning the BAFTA for that film.

And the idea hadn't somehow got through.

I just baffled me.

It still does now.

But I know slightly afterwards, BAFTA did kind of correct that by nominating you as a breakthrough kind of talent.

They have a...