The Mike Leigh favourite has become an Oscar-nominated A-lister. She talks about her glamorous mother, her on-stage stamina and being left holding the baby by Gary Oldman
. On days the jobs overlapped, she rose at 5.30am, put in a full day on a set near Watford, then travelled to the Wyndham’s theatre for curtain up. If she timed it right, she snatched an hour’s sleep in her dressing room. Then she was in the car, up to Watford, in bed after midnight.
the importance of not taking a role “home” – especially the complicated women he had her inhabit. “Anyway, I can never not be Lesley 100% because I am Lesley. But the discipline I learned with Mike stayed.” She grabbed the Yellow Pages and found one listing under nanny agencies. The woman on the telephone promised to fix up an interview the following week. “No,” Manville choked. “I need someone in 10 minutes. And she’s got to be qualified because this is a baby.” Incredibly, they were able to find someone. “They sent a complete angel. I wish I knew where she was now and I could … I must have been such a wreck.
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