The system hasn't always worked, however. When she was appearing in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at the National in 2007, she was equally determined to banish reviews from her eyeline. "I thought, no, I love this, and it's about what we've been through as a company. Then I got in one night and put the telly on and the Late Review was on, and just at that moment Tim Lott and Jeanette Winterson were saying, 'Well, she's… all right.' My husband was filming away abroad – people are never there when you need them. And I called him and he said, 'OK, I'm going to have to tell you about a couple of nice reviews, just to cheer you up.'
That's a nice little husband-wife anecdote that we can all probably relate to. smiley: smile  Very nice interview.