The award-winning actor on her new BBC series, women's safety and the Queen.
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Emma and Claire also discussed the recent stories about the safety of women and girls, whether attitudes towards women have changed since the Duchess of Argyll’s time, and why she might toast the Queen during her Christmas Day speech this year.1. Claire Foy was nervous about ‘playing someone posh’ in A Very British Scandal but the story got ‘under her skin’
3. She thinks women are now able to speak more freely about their experiences than they were a few years ago “It feels like society is now on that page that you can come out with things and talk about experiences and share what you feel is right and wrong. There is an entire avalanche of people who are there going, ‘Yes, absolutely’, and that wasn't there before. Not in my experience of being a woman. I didn't feel like that was there. I didn't feel that was that shared experience of understanding and backing each other up in that way.
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