So rather than trotting the globe she’s mostly been at home, like the rest of us, in her case in south London, with her sister and their two housemates, watching old films, cooking big suppers, worrying about the state of the world and her profession, adjusting to the fact that Wednesdays are suddenly the same as Sundays, missing work but feeling grateful for the fact that unlike many in the creative industries she has the security that comes with high-profile gigs on TV and in the movies: “My friends are stage managers and they’re working in Tesco, you know?”, Of her own lockdown experience, she says, “I slept loads, which I haven’t done properly for years. Since the beginning of 2020, Vanessa has actively hosted a podcast series titled True Spies. I watched it on my laptop, which is no way to see a movie made on location in a gorgeous, austere wilderness (Romania doubling for the American sublime) and printed on 35mm film rather than shot on digital. In person, she is certainly glamorous — tall and slim, with messy blonde hair and pale blue eyes that turn grey in the light — but hers is not an overwhelming presence, she doesn’t alter the molecular makeup of the room just by being in it, or any of that guff. Vanessa Kirby, Actress: The Crown. But it was so much a part of her behavior. Mary gives birth to a baby girl, and Tim knows he can never see his father again. Vanessa Kirby is an English stage, TV, and film actress. And it seems to me to apply to the actor as much as her character: earnest, ardent, questing. I think he fancies himself as a bit of an actor.”. Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, with Gillian Anderson terrific as Blanche, in a production that later transferred from the Young Vic to Broadway. We tried all the different flavors to make it better. Tim goes back in time to put things right, and the play is a triumph. Those people are rare, especially on screen. “It was in the round,” she says, “and I was right there in that garden with them. Tim finds out when and where they met (at a party). [5] The film was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2013. Shoard gave the film 2 stars out of 5. After breaking onto the British theater scene in a triple bill at the Octagon Theatre in 2009 (via What's On Stage), she swiftly climbed through the ranks of the British film and TV industry, with starring roles in a series of appearances in The Hour, About Time, Everest, and Me Before You. Burn bright, live hard. She has taken prominent roles in classy TV dramas besides The Crown, and at the cinema she has mixed arthouse films with blockbusters. The film's initial release date (10 May 2013) was pushed back to 1 November 2013. In fact, she believes that the bullying affected her health. “It was an area where I was totally accepted,” she says. The film is about a young man with the ability to time travel who tries to change his past in hopes of improving his future. To go, ‘What’s the pain, the unhappiness?’ To feel it. Their relationship develops, and Tim moves in with Mary. [21] Mark Kermode agreed that Curtis "sets up his rules of temporal engagement, only to break them willy-nilly whenever the prospect of an extra hug rears its head". “Her messiness. “Met the most incredible group of friends. But none of this appears to have unduly dampened Kirby’s spirits. I couldn’t have done it without that amazing woman giving me that gift.”, She also spent time with women who had suffered stillbirths. Tim is instantly smitten, but waits until the end of her stay to tell her how he feels; she tells him that he should have told her earlier. You were smoking real cigarettes? In The World to Come, directed by Mona Fastvold, Katherine Waterston plays Abigail, a pinched young woman mourning the recent loss of her four-year-old daughter. She starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations in 2011, and as Joanna in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time in 2013. Maybe, on reflection, Vanessa Kirby is the perfect actor for this fraught, frightening period. Upon admitting he was not truly happy in life, the conversation turned towards him describing an ideal day. They manage to return to the present, where Tim finds Posy has never been born and he has a son instead. Tim and Mary have another child, a baby boy. Her way of being was a cigarette as her weapon. Heartbroken, Tim realizes she is uninterested in him, and that time travel cannot change anyone's mind. That became the great responsibility of it.”, I tell her I can’t remember seeing that story told before on film. She closes everything down.”, “My job,” she says, “is to understand why someone is like that. In the back of mind there was me, going, ‘Huh?’ And the next scene was so amazing to play.”, What she took from this experience is that, rather than simply pretending to be another person, “acting is thinking.